Recovering photo files - size glitch

After my C drive was infected with malware, I was able to recover my numerous photo jpeg files on the D drive using Recuva. However, I found that certain photos were full size, but other photos were frozen as thumbnail size of only 3-4 kb and could not be enlarged without blurring the image. Has anyone else encountered this and figured out why this happened. Thanks.

I'm not entirely sure what you're recovering files of 3-4kb are very small for jpegs and would only be suitable for thumbnail images.

If these images were part of a larger set then I can only assume some application had created the thumbnails probably for quick previewing.

Richard S.

Hello Richard,

You're right. Originally, there were thumbnail images for previewing, so it looks like the full size jpg files may have been lost when the C drive was infected.

Prizzy20