Brian wrote:
> Filemon seems to reveal a clue as to what the problem may be.  It seems that
> when POV processes some of our jpeg image files it writes temp files to the
> root of the c drive.  The name of these files look something like this
> t7k.1, t7k.2, t7k.3....and so on.  The name and number of files is slightly
> different for each image that causes this problem.
> 
> This only happens on certain images and not all.  One theory that we have
> here is that these jpegs were created in a older jpeg format, since
> these files that we are failing on were probably created 5-7 years ago.
> The reason we think this, is that if we resave these files in paint shop the
> problem goes away.
> 
> Doesn't look like we can attach files here or I would attach one of the
> problem jpegs.  If you would like to send me an email I would be happy to
> send you one of these files.

hmmm, this is interesting. please post one of the original files that cause
this issue to povray.binaries.images and let me know (here) when it's up.

thanks,

-- Chris

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