G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Got some images of my daughter's wedding taken by a pro photographer. Now need to sort out the album, BUT none of the programs on my wife's windows 10 PC will do anything but open the image on screen. Several will not recognize file type.
Checked file properties and read write are ticked, as is authorized user as shown by Windows image viewer.
Obviously ._ is a file default. Will simply (?) deleting ._ on each image do the trick?
Do not want to lose the files or I will be in Doggy Poo with the wife.

Thanks
George

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Make a copy of 1 of the images, and like you said, remove the first period to see if you can open it. I'm not sure if Windows allows for extra periods in a file name, or it tries to read the file extension after the first one.

** Make sure it's a copy of a file, that way you don't corrupt the original.

Edit: Just saw the title. You might be able to make a copy via command line or powershell in admin mode.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Make a copy then on one change the filename._.jpg to just .jpg (yes, remove the "._" or "_.") so you have filename.jpg

The editor is probably parsing the file name and starts at the first "." to get the suffix (anything after the first ".").
_.jpg is not a standard image suffix.

I NEVER use more "." than the one separating the file name and suffix!

bleirer

Maybe the photographer figured out a tricky way to protect his copyright by using the ._. I am totally guessing but I will try it out later.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Files with multiple "." work, but not necessarily with all programs.......
Some programs do not like spaces in the filename.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I would say that the first thing to do is to make a copy of all the files and place them in a folder that you are not using. That way if you really screw up the file names you can start over.

I took an image and made a copy to name._.jpg
I was able to open it with all my regular programs in that format.
renaming it to strip out the _. didn't change the accessibility.

Is it possible that the photographer put some non-printing characters into the file name?

Try a batch rename. Place all the image files into one folder. Do a batch rename of all the files in that folder to something like "weddingnnn.jpg" and see if that makes any difference.

Another possibility is that it's not a jpg but some other format with a jpg extension, but an image format that your viewer will handle.

If you have IrfanView on your Win10 computer, try using that to open it. If it's some other format with a jpg extension IrfanView will give you a message to that effect. If you don't have IrfanView, it's freeware so you can try it out. IrfanView.com. I've been using it for more than 20 years and I think it's worth having. IrfanView will do batch renaming.

Blenheim Orange Loc: Michigan

Why not ask the pro photographer? Could it be that the contract called for the photographer to retain the rights to the digital images, and then sell you prints?

Mike

Haydon

I'm with you on this. Some programs seem to have issues with file names. Making a copy of the files and working on the copies ensures a starting point without a catastrophe. There's plenty of free Window utilities that make batch renaming very easy. As other have suggested, if you don't have file extensions turned on, the extension could be the culprit.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Haha. I ALWAYS have extensions turned on and "File Type" header has been removed! I know what most are, and it wastes a column for me.
Besides, I don't want Windows "guessing" at non-standard file types or telling me that a ".XYZ" is an "XYZ File Type.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

The photographer has set the files so that they can only be viewed. You can try to change the file name so the extension reads ".jpg" but I doubt if that will work.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

If that is the case, permissions can be changed on the files and he can give himself RWX on all files. But I think that was mentioned in the OP.

I did some research and I guess Windows doesn't have any restrictions on (.) periods as part of the file names any longer. Even though it is considered poor practice as a filenaming convention, it's perfectly acceptable. So, they may just be corrupt files that you may need to acquire again from the photographer.

Without seeing one of the files, it's really hard to make any other recommendations.

Bill_de Loc: US

Before spending too much time, ask your daughter for a copy of her contract. If it states that you don't have the right to do what you are doing, it could be the photographer found a way to keep people from cheating.

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dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

Have you tried opening the file and then using "save as"?

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Might be fine for Windows now. But there are other programs that may not yet.

I still won't use multiple ".".

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Very true. Didn't think of that. I'm just a Linux guy trying to remember my struggles with Windows to provide solutions.