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What to do when photos and images fail to open after recovery?

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Digital photos often are saved in formats like PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, JPE, JPEG, TIF, JPG, and JPEG. Digital cameras, and other applications widely support these formats. However, commonly, photos and images in certain formats fail to open in some applications. For example, JPG files sometimes do not open in Windows photo viewer. Similar issues can arise after you have recovered your photos and images using a digital media recovery tool. There are many free methods to repair corrupt JPEG files. Sometimes, this issue can easily be fixed just by changing the format of the image you have recovered. This can be done easily with the help of Microsoft Paint. Here are some easy methods to help you convert the file formats of images and photos:

Why may images fail to open?

There are several reasons why you might not be able to open an image file. It is essential to know what factors are responsible for this issue, so that you can find the solution to the issue. You can also keep all these points in mind and avoid making a few of the mentioned mistakes in the future. Here’s the list of the factors that may cause this error:

Method 1: Change the image format using Microsoft Paint
  1. Open MS Paint application.
  2. Click on File menu and click Open.
  3. Select the photo or image you want to open and click Open.
  4. Select File from the top of your menu and click on Save from the dropdown menu.
  5. Assign a File name, click on the dropdown arrow on Save as type, and then select PNG. Click on Save.
  6. Now, the image gets saved in PNG format, and you can open this in any application.
Method 2: Change the format by renaming the image
  1. Begin by right-clicking the image and selecting Rename.
  2. Delete the file format .jpg and replace it with (any) format of your choice (say, .png).
  3. Hit Enter and It’s done.
  4. The file format of the image has been changed. It will probably help in accessing the image in the required application.

How to recover photos and images that are inaccessible?

Read Also : How to Recover Permanently Deleted Photos

Many times, users experience a scenario where photos and images misbehave while trying to open them. The most common reason behind this issue may be some bad hard drive sectors, virus infection, corrupted or broken header, incomplete JPEG scan, etc. On such occasions, you can choose to go for a third-party tool for aid, like Kernel Photo Recovery. This tool can successfully recover lost, deleted, corrupt, or any infected image and save it in your system. Download the software from the website, install it in your system, run it, and follow below-mentioned steps:

  1. Start with selecting the drive from which you want to recover the images.
  2. Now, select the image format; here, I am selecting PNG to recover all the PNG format images I have lost. Select a specific format and click on Next.
  3. Note: The tool offers a Settings tab where you can provide a prefix to the file and select a size for the recovery of photos. Prefix helps you recognize the folder in the drive and providing a size limit will save you from recovering unnecessary files. Once you set the standards, click on OK to proceed.

  4. Here, the scanning process is in progress; to stop it, click on the Stop button.
  5. Once the scanning process finishes, you will see the preview of recovered images, and you can select the file type from the folder tree showing on the left side of the screen.
  6. Once the scanning process finishes, you will see the preview of recovered images, and you can select the file type from the folder tree shown on the left side of the screen.
  7. Finally, provide a destination to save the photos and click on OK

You can see how easy it is to use the software and how short the whole process is. So, try the Photo Recovery software to recover any lost images. The software comes with a trial version with which you can try all the features of the tool for free. The only limitation is that you can only have the preview of the recovered images and cannot proceed with saving them.

Conclusion

Sometimes, we recover images, and when we try to open them just after the recovery, they fail to open. In this blog, we discussed all about such instances a user may face. We discussed why images might not open after the recovery – it might be due to format support issues by your photo viewing app or due to a non-reliable source you used to fix the images, and many more reasons like that. Finally, we discussed how to fix this issue with the help of various methods. Finally, we suggested how you can open those inaccessible images with the help of Kernel Photo Recovery tool. This tool can fix such issues in a few easy steps; even you can use this tool to recover lost and permanently deleted images from your system or an external drive.