Message-Id: <200109042130.f84LUcb25426@sitelicense.arizona.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 14:31:09 -0700 From: Guenter Waibel <mailto:guenter@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Re: unexpected end-of-file encountered To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Hi Julie & all,
yes, I have run into this problem before, and posted to various lists
(including this one), and unfortunately, nothing turned up. Then I
e-mailed Bruce Fraser, (co-)author of the Real World Photoshop series
and general digital imaging guru. He essentially said that once that
error occurs, there's nothing that can be done unless you want to
engage in some extremely time-consuming excavation of the hex code
itself. At that point, I wrote off the files, gave up the quest. I
still get e-mail from folks who find my old posts and are looking for
a solution to this exact same problem themselves.
All of this to say: you're not alone, Julie (if that's any
consolation), but this error is bad news, and the files to my best
knowledge are beyond resurrection. I'd love it if somebody could
prove me wrong on this one, but after all the fruitless digging and
posting, I doubt it.
I've lost about 120 low-res image files sitting on a server to this
error, and 2 high-res 100 MB tiff files. The circumstance which
trigger the error are still unclear, which actually is what bothers
me the most. The files were easily refreshed from back-up, but I'd
like to be able to prevent the problem from occurring in the first
place. I guess the story just re-inforces the same old lesson: make
more than one back-up.
best,
Guenter
At 1:14 PM -0500 9/4/01, Julie Dees wrote:
>I have run into a problem with some PC-format, RGB TIFFs I have been
>trying to back up to CD-ROM using Adaptec's Easy CD Creator 4.05. Ten of
>the thirteen images copy fine and can be opened in Photoshop 5.5 (the
>same program I used to create and save the original images) with no
>trouble. Three images can't be opened from the CD and give me an
>"unexpected end-of-file encountered" error message. I can open the hard
>drive and server copies of these three TIFFs with no trouble, but the
>three times I have tried to copy the thirteen images to CD I have
>received the same error message on the same three images. What could be
>causing the problem? Has anyone run into this before?
>
>Many thanks in advance for your assistance,
>Julie Dees
>Archival Reformatting Unit
>Mississippi Department of Archives and History
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Guenter Waibel Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Digital Media Developer http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ Digital Imaging SIG Chair, MCN http://www.mcn.edu/visig_subscribe.taf mailto:guenter@uclink4.berkeley.edu Phone 510-643-8655 Fax 510-642-4889 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</pre>
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