I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

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May 8, 2004
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I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

(Thanks in advance for any help.)

Wonder if anyone can give me some advice on what is causing this problem and how to go about fixing it…

I am trying to open some JPG files stored on floppies 4-9 years ago. I am using the same program to open them that was used to view them originally (Paint Shop Pro Version 3.1.1 in Windows 98SE).

The problem is exclusively with JPG files. All the non-graphic files open fine and GIF files open fine. Some JPG files open fine. Generally the ones that don’t open are on the same floppy.

I can browse them all and get thumbnails, but when I try to open them, I get the following fatal error…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000063a6.
Registers:
EAX=00000007 CS=10e7 EIP=000063a6 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00000000 SS=11b7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=0000002a FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 c7 40 02 00 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03 f0 d1
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000011b7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00070000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e11b7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 11b7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8

With each file, the messages are pretty much the same with slight changes…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000062e6.
Registers:
EAX=000031f7 CS=10e7 EIP=000062e6 EFLGS=00000256
EBX=00000000 SS=31f7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=00000000 FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 39 00 74 03 e9 18 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000031f7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00000000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e31f7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 31f7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8
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Don
May 8, 2004
Sounds to me like the files are damaged. Some programs are more tolerant than others to format problems in JPEG files. Try opening them with other programs that can handle images. If you can successfully open them with another program, save them to your hard drive with that program and you sholud be in business again.

BTW, you have just illustrated the need to have multiple backups of images. All storage media are subject to deterioration of the files stored on them. Image files are particualrly sensitive because of their size and because of the compression algorithms, which are very sensitive to errors in the data.

Don

"DrMickeyMallard" wrote in message
I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

(Thanks in advance for any help.)

Wonder if anyone can give me some advice on what is causing this problem
and
how to go about fixing it…

I am trying to open some JPG files stored on floppies 4-9 years ago. I am
using
the same program to open them that was used to view them originally (Paint
Shop
Pro Version 3.1.1 in Windows 98SE).

The problem is exclusively with JPG files. All the non-graphic files open
fine
and GIF files open fine. Some JPG files open fine. Generally the ones that don’t open are on the same floppy.

I can browse them all and get thumbnails, but when I try to open them, I
get
the following fatal error…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000063a6.
Registers:
EAX=00000007 CS=10e7 EIP=000063a6 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00000000 SS=11b7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=0000002a FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 c7 40 02 00 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03 f0 d1
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000011b7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00070000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e11b7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 11b7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8
With each file, the messages are pretty much the same with slight
changes…
PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000062e6.
Registers:
EAX=000031f7 CS=10e7 EIP=000062e6 EFLGS=00000256
EBX=00000000 SS=31f7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=00000000 FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 39 00 74 03 e9 18 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000031f7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00000000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e31f7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 31f7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8
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Voivod
May 8, 2004
On 08 May 2004 16:48:24 GMT, (DrMickeyMallard)
scribbled:

Paint Shop Pro

alt.graphics.photoshop

What’s wrong with this picture?
MM
Mister Max
May 8, 2004
"Don" posted:

Sounds to me like the files are damaged. Some programs are more tolerant than others to format problems in JPEG files. Try opening them with other programs that can handle images. If you can successfully open them with another program, save them to your hard drive with that program and you sholud be in business again.

Also try reading the files on a different computer. Floppy readers vary in their ability to read slightly-off-spec files.
– Max

"DrMickeyMallard" wrote in message
I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

—
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deKwackr
May 8, 2004
Voi,
Doctor Duck has approached us because none of his fellow PSP dords has even come close to an answer. You must forgive him, however. He done got his ejakayshun in Midland.

Voivod wrote:

On 08 May 2004 16:48:24 GMT, (DrMickeyMallard)
scribbled:

Paint Shop Pro

alt.graphics.photoshop

What’s wrong with this picture?
WD
Walter Donavan
May 9, 2004
Try copying the floppies. Sometimes they can be copied and then read.

I once had a beloved game CD that stopped working. But I was able to copy it with Nero. I have done the same thing (with DOS COPY or DOS XCOPY) with floppies.

By the way, I hung out for years in two graphics newsgroups where the philosophy was, "We’ll try to answer your question if we can, even if you are in the wrong newsgroup. If we can’t, we’ll try to point you to the right group." We got some amazing OT questions and had a bunch of fun.

We felt it was a gentler, kinder way.

—
Walter Donavan
www.revelation7stages.com
www.1stbooks.com/bookview/15479
MR
Mike Russell
May 9, 2004
Dr Mallard,

Run the ScanDisk utility and see if there are any bad sectors. If scandisk offers, do not attempt to fix any errors on the floppy, because it could be the drive.

Either way, try copying the files to your hard drive before reading them, and as Mister Max suggested, try reading the floppies using another drive.

Also, try using Irfanview (free from www.irfanview.com) and see if it can read the images.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
www.geigy.2y.net

"DrMickeyMallard" wrote in message
I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

(Thanks in advance for any help.)

Wonder if anyone can give me some advice on what is causing this problem and how to go about fixing it…

I am trying to open some JPG files stored on floppies 4-9 years ago. I am using the same program to open them that was used to view them originally (Paint Shop Pro Version 3.1.1 in Windows 98SE).
The problem is exclusively with JPG files. All the non-graphic files open fine and GIF files open fine. Some JPG files open fine. Generally the ones that don’t open are on the same floppy.
I can browse them all and get thumbnails, but when I try to open them, I get the following fatal error…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000063a6.
Registers:
EAX=00000007 CS=10e7 EIP=000063a6 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00000000 SS=11b7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=0000002a FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 c7 40 02 00 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03 f0 d1
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000011b7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00070000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e11b7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 11b7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8

With each file, the messages are pretty much the same with slight changes…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000062e6.
Registers:
EAX=000031f7 CS=10e7 EIP=000062e6 EFLGS=00000256
EBX=00000000 SS=31f7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=00000000 FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 39 00 74 03 e9 18 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000031f7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00000000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e31f7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 31f7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8
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Dennis Nordstrom
May 9, 2004
is your JJPEG.DLL file infact in your windows folder?
"DrMickeyMallard" wrote in message
I have a problem opening old files from floppies.

(Thanks in advance for any help.)

Wonder if anyone can give me some advice on what is causing this problem
and
how to go about fixing it…

I am trying to open some JPG files stored on floppies 4-9 years ago. I am
using
the same program to open them that was used to view them originally (Paint
Shop
Pro Version 3.1.1 in Windows 98SE).

The problem is exclusively with JPG files. All the non-graphic files open
fine
and GIF files open fine. Some JPG files open fine. Generally the ones that don’t open are on the same floppy.

I can browse them all and get thumbnails, but when I try to open them, I
get
the following fatal error…

PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000063a6.
Registers:
EAX=00000007 CS=10e7 EIP=000063a6 EFLGS=00000212
EBX=00000000 SS=11b7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=0000002a FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 c7 40 02 00 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03 f0 d1
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000011b7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00070000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e11b7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 11b7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8
With each file, the messages are pretty much the same with slight
changes…
PSP30 caused a general protection fault
in module JJPEG.DLL at 0001:000062e6.
Registers:
EAX=000031f7 CS=10e7 EIP=000062e6 EFLGS=00000256
EBX=00000000 SS=31f7 ESP=0000c8a4 EBP=0000c8be
ECX=00000000 DS=0f2f ESI=00000000 FS=0000
EDX=00000000 ES=0000 EDI=00000f2e GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
26 39 00 74 03 e9 18 00 8b 76 fc 8b c6 d1 e6 03
Stack dump:
0f2e0f2e 000031f7 00000000 000010b7 00008a5f 00000000 c8e05605 10e7049d 0f2e31f7 c8d00f2e 0f2f18d3 189cc8d8 1eae0f2f 31f7c8e4 00410f2e 3437cbf8

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