Yahoo Answers is shutting down on May 4th, 2021 (Eastern Time) and the Yahoo Answers website is now in read-only mode. There will be no changes to other Yahoo properties or services, or your Yahoo account. You can find more information about the Yahoo Answers shutdown and how to download your data on this help page.

Lv 31,056 points

Cozmosis

Favorite Answers42%
Answers108

  • How do I open JPG files with an "invalid JPEG marker type?"?

    My external hard drive crashed. I took it to the Geek Squad, who said they were able to recover all of the files. As it turns out, they only recovered *some* of them. I have thousands of images that will not open. When I try to open them in Photoshop, I get an error message saying "Could not complete your request because an unknown or invalid JPEG marker type is found."

    I have attempted to open the files in MS Paint and with GIMP. I receive error messages in both programs. I've dragged the files to my browser and they don't display. I attempted to rename the files using various extensions with no luck, either. I dragged one of the files to Notepad to see if they were marked as JPEGS appropriately but the first 10 characters are ³*ù¶>¥~W'v´óÿ, which I'm told is *not* a JPG file.

    These files are quite important and I would love a way to somehow be able to recover them. Any suggestions?

    5 AnswersOther - Computers10 years ago