damaged image file "invalid header"

[Dave.Cox]

I'm less familiar with the Mac text edit program, but I believe the program in question here was notepad.
"... it was opened in notepad, a space was entered as the very first character ..." Therefore, that was the program that I tested. I'm not at all surprised that the results with a different program is different.

Regardless, this is not a very good method of securing a file, since doing this will either leave the file with very poor security, or render the file useless.

[Photo678]

Originally Posted by Dave.Cox

Regardless, this is not a very good method of securing a file, since doing this will either leave the file with very poor security, or render the file useless.

agreed :-)

[Flotsam]

If you are using a Mac try Filetyper to reassign format
http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/
or
Graphic Converter
http://www.lemkesoft.com/

[Cameraken]

Hi Dave.

Thanks for the link. That’s a great little hex editor for the money

I did have a hex editor but XVI32 is nice because it gives a side by side view.

I will probably stick with VB to do the actual conversions because it's quick and misses nothing but XVI32 does have a 'replace all' and will get some use on small files

Thanks Again.

Ken.