- May 23, 2000
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I've heard all the bad press about upgrading to Windows Vista. Unfortunately, here at work, we had the need for a new desktop system. We upgraded last week to an eMachines T5230 with Windows Vista. The first few days we had issues with our software working properly. We got all the bugs worked out but I'm still having an issue which has all but crippled this machine for us.
I work at a photography studio, so typically I will take photos in the shooting room, pull the CF card, move the images off the card and onto an external hard drive. Once the images are transferred I use either ULead Photo Explorer or Irfanview to preview the images. Once an image is selected, I open it in Photoshop to do the retouching. Once finished there I typically burn a disc for the client and I'm done.
For some reason, I can't get images off the CF card and onto the hard drive without it truncating all of my images. It's already bitten me once with a real estate agent that I'll have to reshoot at no charge. The really strange thing is that as a last resort I opened all of her images in Photoshop right from the CF card. They all appeared fine. I rotated them and retouched them as usual. I saved all of the files on the drive and they looked fine. The next morning I reopened the files and they were all truncated again (in PS and ULead).
When I plug the CF card into the front of the computer I can view the little preview images and they all look fine. So I move them onto the hard drive and attempt to look at them and they're all truncated for some reason. The weird thing is that they truncate differently depending upon the program that I'm using to view the images.
Does anyone have a remote idea as to what may be causing this? I've got a ton of real estate agents coming in on Thursday afternoon and this system is basically worthless to me.
I have attached two sample images to give you an idea of what the truncated images look like. The first one is what they typically look like in ULead and the second is what they typically look like in Photoshop. ANY help or far-out suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! (You don't need to tell me to get a Mac either ;) )
I work at a photography studio, so typically I will take photos in the shooting room, pull the CF card, move the images off the card and onto an external hard drive. Once the images are transferred I use either ULead Photo Explorer or Irfanview to preview the images. Once an image is selected, I open it in Photoshop to do the retouching. Once finished there I typically burn a disc for the client and I'm done.
For some reason, I can't get images off the CF card and onto the hard drive without it truncating all of my images. It's already bitten me once with a real estate agent that I'll have to reshoot at no charge. The really strange thing is that as a last resort I opened all of her images in Photoshop right from the CF card. They all appeared fine. I rotated them and retouched them as usual. I saved all of the files on the drive and they looked fine. The next morning I reopened the files and they were all truncated again (in PS and ULead).
When I plug the CF card into the front of the computer I can view the little preview images and they all look fine. So I move them onto the hard drive and attempt to look at them and they're all truncated for some reason. The weird thing is that they truncate differently depending upon the program that I'm using to view the images.
Does anyone have a remote idea as to what may be causing this? I've got a ton of real estate agents coming in on Thursday afternoon and this system is basically worthless to me.
I have attached two sample images to give you an idea of what the truncated images look like. The first one is what they typically look like in ULead and the second is what they typically look like in Photoshop. ANY help or far-out suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!! (You don't need to tell me to get a Mac either ;) )