Often, seeing the words 'cannot open' or 'wrong file format' or having photos open only to find artifacts or distortions on them sends chills down the spine as the photographs are of precious moments that cannot be recreated. There may be numerous reasons why photographs are corrupted, including being affected by a virus, a drive or USB is corrupted, or simply an error during transference to the computer. Most people who use digital photography have come across the dreaded incident of JPEG files becoming corrupted.
