corrupted JPEG

Hello. If anyone knows something about digital photography and what to do when you accidentally delete your pictures their advice would be highly appreciated. My girlfriend accidentaly deleted some old photos and while I was able to recover them with recovering softvare, JPeG photos can not be open anymore. Apparently, the problem is that the "JPEG marker is missing".. Anyone had similar problem..? thanks 🙂

using recovery software is probably the most you can do.

but, if you having coding background, and you can get the data from the file intact, you could simply do (manually) an inverse cosine transformation to the data (+ some reconstruction for missing data) and get the picture, then write it into a valid jpeg format.

but since you're asking about it here, I assume that might be out of your options. it's possible though. 🙂

oh, I'm assuming you've tried to open the file in every possible different graphics software you can lay your hands on? some of them might be much more tolerant to missing data than others.

Originally posted by wormwood
oh, I'm assuming you've tried to open the file in every possible different graphics software you can lay your hands on? some of them might be much more tolerant to missing data than others.

Originally posted by Daemon Sin
In my experience, MS Paint has managed to open corrupted images that Photoshop and GIMP couldn't manage.

Thank you for your feedback. I doubt that the images are severely damaged because they are same in size, like before I "deleted" them. It's just that they are not recognizable, probably due to lack of "jpg header" which is sort of JPG ID. Your advices are good and probably the best shot, but so far I didn't manage to save anything. Thanks anyway.

Originally posted by ivan2908
Thank you for your feedback. I doubt that the images are severely damaged because they are same in size, like before I "deleted" them. It's just that they are not recognizable, probably due to lack of "jpg header" which is sort of JPG ID. Your advices are good and probably the best shot, but so far I didn't manage to save anything. Thanks anyway.