
These distortions might look like the following: The image appears incomplete, or the colors appear dim. When the JPEG is severely corrupt or damaged, it might open in the photo viewer but have display issues. Sometimes, the file explorer shows the error that ‘It looks like we don’t support this format.’ or ‘Invalid JPEG Marker.’ If the corruption is recognizable, then file explorer shows the message ‘File appears to be damaged, corrupted or too large.’ You can easily deduce a corrupt header in the JPEG file as it gives no preview in the Windows file explorer. A corrupted header looks like the following: It is the most common corruption in the JPEG file in which the header file gets corrupt. One might see the error message while opening the JPEG files, as shown in the snippet below.Ĭheck out the types of JPEG corruption listed below if you want to know more about JPEG Corruption.


Malicious ware attacks on the image files, leading to data corruption.Header-related corruption in the JPEG images.Power loss and system shutdown during the file transfer process.
