.jpg problem

[LugwidVanB]

I have Win 98 1st with P-III. I have at least a couple hundred pictures in the .jpg format from many sources, including the internet, from emails and from an old Olympus digital camera. A friend recently emailed me a picture and in the email it has the .jpg extention. When I click on the link I get a dialogue box asking to open or save to disk. Under either option I then get a screen with a red x in the upper left corner. I right click and get the message ââ?¬Ë?Open Pictureââ?¬â?¢. I click that and nothing happens. I save the picture to a temp file in explorer and try to open it in both explorer and Adobe Photo 3.0. In the Adobe program I get an error message saying ââ?¬Ë?could not open because of a problem parsing the JPEG dataââ?¬â?¢. I would appreciate any response or comments here since I would like to open the picture. I also sent a photo from my ISP to my Hotmail account and it worked fine as usual. Iââ?¬â?¢m baffled since I canââ?¬â?¢t recall ever having this problem. Thanks very much.

[Bill]

Given that all other photos and pictures seem to work, it is possible that the .jpeg file you are trying to open is corrupt.

Bill

[scuzzy]

I suspect that either the jpg file is corrupted, or the email client is having a compatibility problem with the original format, or the manner in which the jpg was embedded.

If you have a link to the jpg, try right-clicking and selecting the "save target as" option to save the file to your hard drive.

[LugwidVanB]

Thanks for your comments. I thought too the file was corupted. However, I had someone send me another jpg file and got the exact same result. I dl the file to the hard drive and tried to open it in Explorer and Adobe Photo 3.0. That's where I got the error message about parsing. It seems improbable that both files would be corrupted but I don't have a clue as to what is going on.

[dksinghh]

You got an JPEG which uses CMYK instead of RGB encoding, and Firefox/IE choke on such files. In Photoshop, you can convert the JPGs to RGB colorspace, or you can select ââ?¬Å?Save For Webââ?¬Â¦Ã¢â?¬Â to make the file valid for common browsers.