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Old 08-07-2007   #1 (permalink)
Greg


 
 

Editing Jpeg (JFIF) headers

Recently Vista networking/filehandling/PhotoGallery corrupted some of my jpg
files by trashing the jpg markers.

Does anyone know whether it is possible to use a text editor to replace the
headers with an intact JFIF header from an uncorrupted file so that software
can recognise it as a jpg again? Or is each header so integral to that
particular image (in terms of defining size, etc) that you can't do that?
And if it is possible, where do the Jpg headers start and end? I don't read
hexadecimal! (Or whatever that spaghetti is)

There doesn't seem to exist yet any recovery software that works for Vista
that can recover my files.

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