Invalid jpeg marker - Need help!!!

[fenton]

I have teh exact same problem and tried all of the above... I lost 700 pictures of my family since the spring... If anyone can help I would be very much appreciative. My memory card that had the originals completely crashed after i took the pics off, now it wont even reformat in the camera.

[Jerryb]

hi Fenton,
you might want to look at this freeware program it designed to look into various memory sticks and recover certain graphic file formats....
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

this link does address memory sticks but it put more enphases on hard drive and cdroms... http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Originally Posted by fenton

I have teh exact same problem and tried all of the above... I lost 700 pictures of my family since the spring... If anyone can help I would be very much appreciative. My memory card that had the originals completely crashed after i took the pics off, now it wont even reformat in the camera.

[plugsnpixels]

I work in high ed and occassionally see students with this problem. No telling what combo of cameras/cards and home computers they use before they get to our Macs.

I had a bad time with the error as well when I would regularly optimize the external FireWire drive I have images stored on (I also have CD backups; I use the FW for organizing and easy access). I stopped doing the optimizations of that volume and haven't seen the problem since. I think it has something to do with the image header getting chopped or scrambled. If you can access that info and repair it (somehow?), perhaps it would work.

Also on the Mac, I have seen GraphicConverter open parts of corrupt images that PS wouldn't touch.