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Recently Photoshop has stopped recognizing a good portion (but not all) of my jpeg files as being legitimate jpegs. The icon on the desktop has changed to the Quicktime icon (they never were before) and the files can’t be opened by dragging them onto the Photoshop application icon. Double-clicking opens Quicktime. They can be opened in PS (one at a time) by going through the Open dialog. Once they’ve been opened and resaved they function as normal. All files have the .jpg extension.
Any ideas what’s causing this or how to fix it? Sounds suspiciously like a virus, but no other symptoms seem to exist, and once re-saved the "fix" seems permanent.
OS is 9.2.2. I think PS version is 4 on that computer, if that makes a difference. (I know, I’ll upgrade eventually, but I have 7 at work so I’m not in a hurry). It also may be pertinent that I had to install software to download images from a Kodak digital camera. I don’t remember the problem occuring before that. All the images from the camera load onto the system in this irritating way, but a lot of unrelated jpegs started behaving the same way. Could the install have overwritten something important in the system folder?
Any ideas what’s causing this or how to fix it? Sounds suspiciously like a virus, but no other symptoms seem to exist, and once re-saved the "fix" seems permanent.
OS is 9.2.2. I think PS version is 4 on that computer, if that makes a difference. (I know, I’ll upgrade eventually, but I have 7 at work so I’m not in a hurry). It also may be pertinent that I had to install software to download images from a Kodak digital camera. I don’t remember the problem occuring before that. All the images from the camera load onto the system in this irritating way, but a lot of unrelated jpegs started behaving the same way. Could the install have overwritten something important in the system folder?
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