Images getting corrupted

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:15 am

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  From time to time, I find out that an older, posted image has got corrupted so I have to re-upload it.

  In the last few months, the frequency of the problem has increased. There has been at least 3-4 instances of suddenly corrupted pictures, and not only images uploaded long time ago. I do not see any reason for this?

  Additional trouble occurs when desiring to delete the corrupted photos from the database. The WP manage-uploads interface is very user-unfriendly when it comes to deleting old photos. If they are situated somewhere in the middle of the upload base it is necessary to browse through a lot of uploads to just delete one image — and once the upload is deleted, if I want to delete one of its neighbours, the browsing-through-all-uploads process starts all over again. However, I have discussed this problem before and this post is about the corruption of photos.

  Anyone knows what causes images to corrupt and how it can be avoided?

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  drmike · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:19 am

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  It’s probably related to the ongoing issue with missing images. There’s a number of threads on the subject. Best bet would be to submit a feedback and point this out to staff with specifics so that someone can review the situation.

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:26 am

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  Admin/moderator if you see this post it would be great if you would correct the title spelling error :-)

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  drmike · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:29 am

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  Fixed. You’ll note that spelling doesn’t count much around here. Some of the folks who spend time here have physical issues working their keyboards.

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:30 am

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  Aha… Thank you for the info. Yes I have actually experienced a few missing pictures as well but I though it was my mistake. I do not have spec. as I have deleted the corr. images. Only my profile image, it seems that one has gotten corrupt now :-)

  Thanks.

  Anne

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:31 am

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  Thanks! very nice.

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  drmike · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:32 am

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  If you’re talking about your avatar, I could have sworn it was like that from day 1. I remember wondering about it.

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:35 am

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  Strange… to me it looked good up till now (I am not talking about the motive).

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:36 am

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  You are replying very fast, that is why some of my answers are a bit delayed :-)

  Thanks dr. Mike.

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  ag1024 · Member · Apr 19, 2007 at 3:45 am

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  Regarding the avatar, I did not mean the thumbnail besides the posts but the bigger profile avatar in the upper corner. With corrupted ~ not blurry only (that is the way it is) but blurry with characteristic rectangular pixels, like an extremely low solution digital photo.