YES!!! Several times. See my other posts to several microsoft forums.
Vista file handling, especially over networks, is really nasty. I am now
afraid to copy stuff over the network. It appears to be a problem with
something called 'permissions' and is especially troublesome with USB
devices connected via networks.
I have a Vista laptop connected to my wife's desktop running XP. The desktop
is connected to an external HD by a USB port. When I copy photos from my
camera (Olympus) connected to the USB port of the laptop, via the network to
the USB HD connected to the desktop using Windows Gallery or even just by
folders, it strips the jpg markers from the files making them unreadable.
I also have found that when I import Olympus photos via Windows Gallery even
direct to the laptop, it doesn't corrupt the whole file like it does over
the network, but it still overwrites the Olympus markers that tell the
Olympus photo software that the picture is part of a panorama, thus
rendering it unable to be stitched by the Camedia software. When you look at
the files in a text editor, you can see that amongst all the hexadecimal
rubbish the english words such as "Olympus Camera" etc have been replaced by
things like "Windows Gallery" and the name of the folder you imported to.
Vista file handling is a bad joke. I advise no one to import photos using
Gallery. It's just not safe. And certainly don't use it from USB devices to
other USB devices via a network because it WILL CORRUPT YOUR JPG FILES!
Greg
"Michael Price" <EmJay_Price[ at ]msn.com> wrote in message
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[Quoted Text] > On my Vista Ultimate machine I create a number of jpg files. They are
> around 200k each. The thumbnails and files display fine. I copy the files
> to my W2K3 server and they still display fine on my machine.
>
> When my wife tries to look at the files, both the thumbnails and viewing
> the files in Windows photo viewer shows corrupted images. The corruption
> ranges from parts of the image missing showing grey, or with lines in it.
> This persists even if we copy the images to her machine.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this?
>
> Thanks
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