Help with corrupted images

lala

I hope this is the right place for this; if not, please forgive me and point me in the right direction!

I am having corrupt images show up randomly on three different hard drives. Fine one minute, corrupt the next, or fine one day, corrupt the next. Different drives, different folders, some images just downloaded, some have been on the hard drive for years. NO rhyme or reason.

Has anyone experience anything like this, or know of what could possibly cause this??? I am desperate to find a solution.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated!


Thanks, Linda

These are just 2 examples of what I am getting:
http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=402849
http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=402848

BinaryFx

Linda, the #1 cause of image corruption from Photoshop is saving direct over a network, rather than locally and then moving the file over at the desktop level (or ftp). Others may have different experiences. Often the files can be opened into Photoshop, but there will be rows of pixels corrupted or chunks of the image moved or one channel may be offset or someting similar. This would have been with PSD and or TIFF/EPS in RGB or CMYK.

Are you saving direct to local disk, or over a network to remote storage?

Can you open the file, or do you get a message preventing this?

As for the old images not recently saved...this is strange!


Best,

Stephen Marsh
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/

gubbs

BinaryFx wrote:

Linda, the #1 cause of image corruption from Photoshop is saving direct over a network, rather than locally and then moving the file over at the desktop level (or ftp). Others may have different experiences. Often the files can be opened into Photoshop, but there will be rows of pixels corrupted or chunks of the image moved or one channel may be offset or someting similar. This would have been with PSD and or TIFF/EPS in RGB or CMYK.

Are you saving direct to local disk, or over a network to remote storage?

Can you open the file, or do you get a message preventing this?

As for the old images not recently saved...this is strange!


Best,

Stephen Marsh
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/

When you say remote storage would this include a firewire/usb drive??

pathfinder

Your virus scanner IS up to date, isn't it?...........

Stephen, I store all my images on external Firewire based drives or ESB 2.0 drives, and ( fingers crossed ) I have not seen any difficulty with corruption. I do not have a network based drive at this point, although I have been looking at a RAID set up like the TerreStation.

Interestingly, I use a network based printer all the time without any problems at all HP 2600n, D-Link based network + Macs and PCs

BinaryFx

My comments were from experience saving in both Mac and PC settings where the company policy was to use a file server for all saving over ethernet. If going file/open and then pointing to the remote server, opening the file, working on the file direct to the server and then saving and closing the file results in corruption (not every image) then this is the same as what I have faced.

The solution was simple, copy the file off the file server to local disk, work and save it locally then move it back to the server.

I was not commenting on USB drives or Firewire, I should have made it clear that this was in a large studio setting where there may be 10 or more folk sharing projects and files (the policy is to work remotely may be fine for MS Word or simpler files, but I have had too many issues with Photoshop images to change my superstitious behaviour).

Sorry for any confusion.

Stephen Marsh.
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/