Why can't I save a picture I've changed? Jpeg crop on Vista HELP URGENT?

Question

I need help to resolve why, when I "Fix" an image on Vista (mostly often cropping), I receive a pop-up saying "Changes to this picture can't be saved because Photo Gallery has encountered a problem".

It cannot be because of any read-only issues because I have checked and cleared that box many a time, then rebooted etc.

I don't know how or if my image, from my camera's memory card, is "corrupted" or if "the encoder software might have failed while saving the picture".

Any, any help would be hugely appreciated - this is a stupid issue that my bl00dy laptop decides it needs to inconvenience me with.

Cheers.

Answer 1

I have similar problems with my laptop.  The only way I get around it is to down load all the pictures onto my computer and then edit them.  If I try to rotate them while they are still on the card, they only save half of the time.

Answer 2

It might just be that windows vista is having the problem.  It is quite buggy.  Try a restart.  Look into downloading the windows vista picture viewer (photo gallery) update and see if that fixes your problem.  You should also ask in the Computers & Internet section of Y!A.

Answer 3

Your photo program is having issues, not Vista.

Try downloading one of the free photo programs like photofiltre, Picasa2, GIMP and Kodak's EasyShare and try again.

REMEMBER to save any changed image files as a new file name so you do not overwrite your original file.  

Hint.  You can save all this cropping buy composing the shot in the camera and use the whole of your tiny sensor to get what you want with no wasted image.