Vista - Photo Gallery Problem - Saving

Photo Gallery Problem - Saving
I have been looking for any information anyone may have on the following
error message:

"Changes to this picture can not be saved because Photo Gallery has
experienced a problem"

This happens after opening any and ALL pictures in Windows Photo Gallery, making any
changes (crop, reduce red eye etc) then letting it "auto-save" (as there is
no save option). It's almost as if the pictures are read only (I have checked
- they're not).

I've exhausted all known avenues to me....if anybody has a fix ...please let me know

thanks

Trevor


Vista Home Premium 32bit

Any ideas...Anybody?

The only why to get around this I am afraid is ,before working on the picture click on "file" select "make another copy " and then work with the picture knowing that you have a copy to fall back on. You are right this is a strange behavior especially after we all got used to the "save as" function in all the other photo prgrams. Personally I use another third party programs Paint.net among a few others.
Not much help I know sorry.

I had this problem so had to make changes in a different program.This
defeated my object as I wanted to add tags and edit at the same time.I will
try that but when I tried save a copy it still didn't work

"dbknox" wrote:

I think I misread the problem here are you saying that Photo Gallery doesn't save changes after working on a picture. Ie when you close the program it doesn't automatically save the work you have done?
The reason I got confused about the problem is that I notice when I run the program and change the photo there is no "save as", so the origanal would be lost sorry for the confusion.
I do not have this problem on my computer, but I have heard that this happens a lot on Dell computers. I would be curious if this is the case with you.

when I make changes to the photo then return to the gallery it should save
it but it always pops up saying there is a problem and it just wont save the
changes. I tried amaking a copy and again it would not even make the copy it
just says It cant save the copy either.It is a real pain.They should have an
option to save as

"dbknox" wrote:

as soon as i have edited it I go back to library and it shouls auto save but
it just says it cant save it.I did try to make a copy to work on but again it
said it could not save the copy so a copy wasnt even made.It is a right
pain.I think they need to give the option to save as

"dbknox" wrote:

I have to admit I am lost,you could try downloading and reinstalling it from
Windows Live Photo Gallery
maybe that will fix it.

The problem is corruption of the copyrights field. I just uploaded a couple
of pics to my work pc and couldn't even change the orientation using any of
the default MS photo editors. Same error on close couldn't save. When I
uploaded these same pics to another pc using same method, same security patch
levels no problems. Studied the files carefully so I found some strange
characters in the copyright field when you check properties>details tab>under
the origin header. go to the copyrights field remove the characters>apply and
close. You'll find you can edit the files without a problem.

"trevorld" wrote:

I have over 300,000 photos and as far as I am aware I have no copyright on
them so I dont really understand why it is happening

"JPerez @ OdysseySoftware" wrote: