Message Forum: Re: I Could Be the Next Computer Stupidity

Re: I Could Be the Next Computer Stupidity

Posted By: Stephen, on host 68.7.169.109
Date: Friday, August 13, 2004, at 23:40:23
In Reply To: Re: I Could Be the Next Computer Stupidity posted by Grishny on Friday, August 13, 2004, at 23:12:57:

> Thanks for your suggestions. The Scotsman was able to find another help article on MS that shed more light on the problem. It seems that there's some sort of buggy interaction between Windows XP and .TIF files. And there's currently no fix for it, the article merely notes that the bug exists.
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> I did lose a whole folder of hi-res images, but at least I still have the lo-res JPEGS.

Are they gone gone? If they're there and saved correctly, but XP can't display them, I'd strongly suggest you not delete them. It seems likely that eventually a fix will come, or if worst comes to worst you could just eventually recover them by mounting the drive from an operating system that can... uh... handle the complex technology that is the TIFF...

Stephen

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Message:	> > Thanks for your suggestions. The Scotsman was able to find another help article on MS that shed more light on the problem. It seems that there's some sort of buggy interaction between Windows XP and .TIF files. And there's currently no fix for it, the article merely notes that the bug exists. > [snip] > > > I did lose a whole folder of hi-res images, but at least I still have the lo-res JPEGS. > > Are they gone gone? If they're there and saved correctly, but XP can't display them, I'd strongly suggest you not delete them. It seems likely that eventually a fix will come, or if worst comes to worst you could just eventually recover them by mounting the drive from an operating system that can... uh... handle the complex technology that is the TIFF... > > Stephen
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