Problem with distorted jpgs. and gifs. on hard drive - HELP!

[kneelsit]

If any coding experts out there can help I would be most appreciative. Currently I have 7 important images which show up badly distorted on my hard drive BUT they are fine on site.
Have tried deleting them from my drive and bringing them down again by FTP but this has not solved the problem.
The other 30 odd images are fine - just these 7.

Can anyone out there please suggest a remedy.

It only happens on MY computer, on my partner's computer they show up fine.
At first I thought the problem might be with my editor but this distortion occurs even on trying to open them from File manager (Win explorer).

Honestly I am stumped!!**$# :mad:

[Alan Perkins]

Originally posted by kneelsit
It only happens on MY computer, on my partner's computer they show up fine. Do you transfer them from your computer to your partner's, or download them direct from your site to your partner's computer?

It's possible you've told your FTP program to transmit in TEXT mode rather than BINARY (or auto-select).

If it's not that, try transferring the images that work on your partner's computer to yours, and see if you still have a problem.

[polarmate]

It could be a problem with the viewer as you say they show fine when using the browser. Do you have the same viewer and version as your partner? Have you tried switching to another image viewer? Do you get the same results?

<added>Can you see them properly when if you view the local images using your browser? If you can then there is no problem with the images and I am inclined to assume that it is indeed the viewer.</added>

[kneelsit]

Thanks Alan and Polarmate.

Yes I know that the FTP was set up correctly on Binary as I brought down ALL
the rest of our images succesfully..

Tried setting up Paint Shop Pro on my machine and making THAT the default program for viewing Gifs, jpegs. etc., etc. -
still exactly the same problem.

If it was a problem with the viewer that would affect how I see ALL the images
would it not? BUT it is only these 7 out of more than 40. It is really weird. :(

If they were "feelthy pictures " I could put it down to the actions of my "guardian angel" :D protecting my innocence.
But it seems more like the actions of an imp or leprechaun.

See how it is getting to me!

[polarmate]

Do you know which software was used to create those 7 images? Were all images created by the same software in the same format? This is quite intriguing - could you point me to those images?

[kneelsit]

Yep Photoshop 7 was used to create ALL of the images. one of the most important ones is
chair gif (http://www.kneelsit.com/chair.gif) opposite facing to this one on site here.
Also title.jpg
perfect.jpg
springwashers.jpg
perfect-posture.jpg
and a personal one boat3.jpg

thanks

Greg

[Danny]

I suspect it to be a technical problem with a sector of your disk or with the disk controller.
Did you already try renaming the files on your disk (don't delete them) and then download the files again from your site so they are stored on a different sector.

Hope this helps

[kneelsit]

Hooray !!***

THANKS HEAPS.

Your comments and suggestions helped to solve the problem so I did not have to go through the long boring job of re-formatting my hard drive.

It set me to thinking back as to what I had done and who had been at my machine. Then the penny dropped.:-

A couple of months ago I had someone come in and work on setting up a database for me to keep track of supplies and customers. While he was at my machine he asked about sending changes to me via FTP and I told him how to do that. What I did not realise was that he had gone into MY FTP program and fiddled around there and in so doing changed the setting from its default "binary" to "ascii"

Those 7 images had been brought down in the interim since he had been
at my machine. Being in ascii format of course they were just a blotchy mess.

Mystery solved. Many many thanks you have all been most helpful.