[Ti] Changing format

[William Scammell]

>I had a number of jpeg files archived on a firewire hard drive.  I 
>recently had a catastrophic drive failure and when I finally got it 
>back online (using Norton, Drive 10, Disk Warrior) nearly every jpeg 
>file is now got a red icon and nothing will recognize their format. 
>Not Quicktime (which they were coded in) nor Graphic Convertor. 
>What happened?   When I check their information, they are still jpeg 
>files and are the same sized files as before.   Is there a way to 
>get them back?

have you tried photoshop or jpegview (freeware) ?

as jpeg is a lossy format, you might want to consider saving the 
files to the native .psd format first, then save as again to jpg.

(and yes, doing a "save as" on all those files will be laborious. but 
at least you have the files.)

bill

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