Computer Jedi-- What's with these JPEG file problems please?

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This has happened.. gads every time I've tried it maybe..
Real simple- I would think.
All I do is get this silly idea to make some folders, organize some camera downloads, nice rainy day gig right? Invariably once I move some of these files, maybe rename some, it ends up crashing windows explorer.
This time I took one big batch, after reviewing them and separating them into three new sub folders –now I can barely even select them w/o locking explorer.
I got to copy the whole thing to a thumb drive- there I can do whatever, no problem.
Paste it back to c:/my pictures (old one renamed) – bam.. same crashing again.
Win XP Pro SP3 (what else do I need?)
Help.. :o
 
My first guess would be that your drive is going bad.

I'd back up the whole drive before something bad happens.
 
I agree. I had the same problem for a long time on my wife's Win Vista computer. It was the hard drive. :mad:
 
Ok. Thanks. Its odd only show's up on picture files, but something's definitely Abby Normal.
 
There can be other issues which cause this problem. Best sort it out anyway, both for safety and convenience.

SAFETY:
In 'My Computer', right click on the hard drive (likely 'C'), choose [Properties] -> [Tools] -> and in the 'Error Checking' box click [Check Now]. It'll likely make you reboot. It may find errors, maybe not.

CONVENIENCE:
After that precaution, try switching off thumbnail generation/media preview, it can cause all kinds of problems:
http://www.techbuzz.in/disable-turn-off-windows-picture-fax-viewer-and-image-preview-thumbnail-in-windows-xp.php
also try:
http://www.techbuzz.in/disable-avi-video-media-thumbnail-preview-in-windows-xp-regsvr32-shmedia-dll.php.
I have a hunch one of these is actually your issue, though a disc problem can't be ruled out. By the way, sometimes issues with apparently unrelated previews, such as video, can be triggered indirectly in Explorer, so it's worth trying the second fix above if the first doesn't do the job.

By the way, I use XYplorer - I find it quicker and less buggy than Windows Explorer. XYplorer isn't free but gives you a month free trial.

Let us know how you get on!
 
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mixsit said:
Ok. Thanks. Its odd only show's up on picture files, but something's definitely Abby Normal.
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Yeah, that was exactly the same problem we had. I think it was a bad sector that corrupted some files. Her computer would hang up and task manager showed no activity.

I figured I would shotgun the fix, meaning I would start replacing parts at random, and went with the hard drive first. No problems since.

Good luck!!
 
Just an update. Didn't try the above fixes, but rather having had no problems working these same files on the external thumb drive, and my bass slinging/Photoshop'n wife's suggestion that perhaps the problem is Window's and/or its links into the 'My Pictures folder- (or that folder being corrupted?), I tried a similar experiment last few nights;
Simply I copied the same fairly large folders (plus a bunch of others) to another new directory on C', proceeded to sub-group, preview, rename away with out a single hitch. So now everything's out of there and the old folder's deleted, gone. :D New pics are downloaded, it looks good so far. :drunk:
 
Thanks for the update.

If there's any question of disc corruption you should look into it as it can snowball into large amounts of randomly corrupted data and even a full hardware failure of the drive. It'd be wise to at least do a full external back-up, if you haven't done so already.
 
I always BACK-UP once a week after my computer completley died on me and I lost everything.
 
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