jpeg files not recognized

Had a folder with a bunch of jpeg files. Could see thumbnails for all and open all in Photoshop. Created a new folder and moved a selection of these jpegs to the new folder. Now the system cannot recognize these files as jpeg. In Windows Explorer in detail mode, each file has a reasonable size in bytes, but no dimensions. When I try to copy a file, am told that the format is not recognized. Can't copy a file to another location because the system thinks it is in use. ???

Help!!

Chuck

 

Just discovered that moving any folder into the parent folder in question, makes the files in that folder corrupt. Ran fsdk - everything fine. Can not delete directories or files.

Chuck

 

Also check that the path to the newly created folder doesn't exceed the maximum allowable number of characters. This rarely happens but is worth considering. Test by shortening the folder name to a single letter.

Also dump all TIF's and other tmp files on the drive.

 

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the response. Windows File Protection ran successfully. No indication of any replaced files in the event log. Still can't access or delete the folder in question. ???

Chuck

 

Chuck ...

Have you tried deleting the folder in Safe mode?

 

Jim,

Followed your advice and tried to delete the folder in Safe Mode. No luck. Then, since the folder was in the E-partition on a 2nd disk drive, I checked both chkdsk and scan /scannow on the E-drive. Both reported no errors. Looked in the Event Log for any evidence of bad files but found nothing.

Chuck

 

Hello Chauck,

If the file still won't delete - Use Move On Boot, download from here: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/moveonboot.html to delete it. It will add a new item to your right click Context Menu, target that file with Move on Boot, and then reboot.

Regards - Charles

 

Charles,

Thanks for the lead. Unfortunately it didn't work. The corrupted folder is in another directory. Tried first deleting the parent directory without success. Then tried deleting the corrupted directory ... got error msg from MoveOnBoot, "Access is denied ". The corrupted directory is in my image partition with 30 GB of data. One alternative would be to back up all the good data and re-format. Are there any other alternatives?

Chuck