[SOLVED] JPG images not readable on a gnome laptop

[reiki]

I switched to KDE. I have pictures in JPG format on my machine. Copied to a USB stick, coped to my wife's laptop. She has Gnome for desktop environment (will be switching her later this week most likely).

Anyways, they won't open on the gnome laptop. They throw an error. I went in and changed permissions to 777 and they're owned by her user and group on that machine. The icon for them looks different than any other jpg image. They're just images. I have no idea why she can't open them. Can't even view them in firefox. She just gets the path showing but it doesn't open. Like it doesn't even know they're images.

Any ideas?

[Rog132]

Re: JPG images not readable on a gnome laptop

They throw an error.

What was the error message ?

Any ideas?

How the exiftool is seeing them ?


The Exiftool is part of the package: libimage-exiftool-perl:

Description: Library and program to read and write meta information in multimedia files
ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. It recognizes EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile,
Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3 meta information as well as the
maker notes of many digital cameras including Canon, Casio, FujiFilm,
JVC/Victor, Kodak, Leaf, Minolta/Konica-Minolta, Nikon, Olympus/Epson,
Panasonic/Leica, Pentax/Asahi, Ricoh, Sanyo and Sigma/Foveon.

Commandline:

exiftool /path/to/image.jpg

or/and

exiftool -a -u -g1 /path/to/image.jpg

More: man exiftool

[reiki]

Re: JPG images not readable on a gnome laptop

got it... not sure how but all the filenames on the USB stick were for 0 byte files. I re-copied them to the USB stick and then recopied them to my wife's machine and they're fine. That was just weird. I should really get one of my old computers running as a NAS or something. I hate sneaker-net

thanks for the quick response. Appreciated.