It looks like your laptop might have restrictions on it for the viewing of photos for some reason. Was it issued by your work or was it a refurbished laptop from a company that you bought? Need more info on the make, and model version of windows, are you the administrator or just a user? UMD has protection on the photos that are uploaded to the site to prevent people from extracting any location metadata from photos.
Whenever I try to open a picture file on my laptop I get this bloody error message and the file doesn't open :
Does anyone know how to get this to stop please?
*Sorry for the shitty screenshots, got to click the pics to see the error message in the corner*
You need to first run CHKDSK. Instructions are available on https://www.avast.com/c-chkdsk-windows for how to do it in Windows Explorer or through command prompt.
Fix whatever errors it identifies, then try opening a jpeg again and report back with results.
Navigate to the file in windows explorer, use the path in the error to get to the correct folder, find the file and right click it, choose properties and see if it's set to read only.
Gunge1050 said: Navigate to the file in windows explorer, use the path in the error to get to the correct folder, find the file and right click it, choose properties and see if it's set to read only.
Just to add, what are you trying to open it with? A photo viewer or editing software? If it's a photo you've bought as part of a photo set, it may well be write protected to stop it being edited. In the same way purchased music files are write protected to stop them being used on another account.
Thank you Mhop. Its my own laptop I got new about 18 months ago. I should be the admin as I'm the only user?! The make is Asus (lol not joking) and I am using windows 10. I'm not trying to upload these to UMD, they are just my own pictures.
Thank you Dungeon Master
Thank you Hope, will do.
Thank you Gunge1050. I have checked an none of them are read only. I have been able to open then until quite recently. I am using a photo viewer and these pictures are a mixture of screenshots, pictures I have taken, pictures I have downloaded and pictures I have been sent.
ulliet said: Thank you Mhop. Its my own laptop I got new about 18 months ago. I should be the admin as I'm the only user?! The make is Asus (lol not joking) and I am using windows 10. I'm not trying to upload these to UMD, they are just my own pictures.
Thank you Dungeon Master
Thank you Hope, will do.
Thank you Gunge1050. I have checked an none of them are read only. I have been able to open then until quite recently. I am using a photo viewer and these pictures are a mixture of screenshots, pictures I have taken, pictures I have downloaded and pictures I have been sent.
I find it likely that there are file system errors, please post the results of CHKDSK (and do select 'yes' to repair whatever errors are found during the scan). I should note the scan itself may take a long time.
ulliet said: Thank you Mhop. Its my own laptop I got new about 18 months ago. I should be the admin as I'm the only user?! The make is Asus (lol not joking) and I am using windows 10. I'm not trying to upload these to UMD, they are just my own pictures.
Thank you Dungeon Master
Thank you Hope, will do.
Thank you Gunge1050. I have checked an none of them are read only. I have been able to open then until quite recently. I am using a photo viewer and these pictures are a mixture of screenshots, pictures I have taken, pictures I have downloaded and pictures I have been sent.
I find it likely that there are file system errors, please post the results of CHKDSK (and do select 'yes' to repair whatever errors are found during the scan). I should note the scan itself may take a long time.
Yeah, it sounds like either the disk is on its way our, or more likely it's system errors. It could also be malware, so running something like Emsisoft Emergency toolkit is a good idea after chkdsk has done it's thing. https://www.emsisoft.com/en/emergency-kit/ but I always reccomend running it rather than installing (it's not dangerous to install, but it's the way i've always done in since moving away from HitManPro when they went to yearly licenses)
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