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 07/16/2007 12:31:10 PM · #1
OK, so I still use this as my primary way of quickly viewing JPGs on my system, its quick & simple, ok so that part is out of the way.

Recently, basically the last couple of weeks, I have been experiencing a problem where I try to view the image fullsize and I get a "Drawing Failed" message pop up.. Now normally I would put this down to problematic JPG files. but today, I was viewing files on a system at work and I got the same thing. THEN, a colleague was showing me some shots he took on holiday and he started experiencing it on a completely different system (his own laptop in fact).. Has anyone here experienced this problem occuring, starting in the past few weeks? I am wondering if MS has rolled out a fix and managed to cause a problem with this app..
 07/16/2007 12:32:49 PM · #2
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.
 07/16/2007 12:34:00 PM · #3
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.


He is talking about, JPG's and not a once in a while. Hes getting it consistantly on files that are not bad or malformed.....
 07/16/2007 12:34:14 PM · #4
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.


Didnt realise it could be used to view RAW files. you sure?
 07/16/2007 12:37:10 PM · #5
Originally posted by Simms:
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.


Didnt realise it could be used to view RAW files. you sure?


Yeah, if you install Microsoft's RAW thumbnailer pack.
 07/16/2007 12:37:38 PM · #6
Yup powertools rock!
 07/16/2007 12:42:57 PM · #7
Indeed they do.

I have gotten every update Windows has done for XP, and havent experienced anything like this on a more then intermittent basis...so essentially I am no help.
 07/16/2007 12:43:57 PM · #8
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by Simms:
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.


Didnt realise it could be used to view RAW files. you sure?


Yeah, if you install Microsoft's RAW thumbnailer pack.


Nice one, will check it out, anyway, back to the original subject, the reason I posted tyhis is because in the past 2 weeks I have seen it happening on 3 different PCs with 3 unrelated sets of images and before now the only reason I have seen it is when there is a JPG file with corruption. The thing is, I can try and view them a 2nd time with no problems.
 07/16/2007 12:45:34 PM · #9
Actually, I've been seeing it a lot more lately too. I wonder if Microsoft did some sort of patch that broke it?
 07/16/2007 12:49:19 PM · #10
You'll get that opening 32 bit images in fax viewer, but if you can open them on a subsequent attempt I don't know what to tell you. Can only mean that attempt A is failing to retrieve sensible data whereas attempt B is successful and that speaks to some sort of media failure - disk, flash, or otherwise.

Message edited by author 2007-07-16 12:49:47.
 07/16/2007 01:33:16 PM · #11
Originally posted by routerguy666:
You'll get that opening 32 bit images in fax viewer, but if you can open them on a subsequent attempt I don't know what to tell you. Can only mean that attempt A is failing to retrieve sensible data whereas attempt B is successful and that speaks to some sort of media failure - disk, flash, or otherwise.


Thats what I thought intitally, but 3 sets of images on 3 PCs in the past 2 weeks, when before that it was incredibly rare? naah, too coincidental, although since only one person has so far noticed an increase in it happen, maybe it really is just a coincidence.
 07/16/2007 03:03:36 PM · #12
Originally posted by ajdelaware:
I get it every once in a while, usually on a raw file.


Ya...that happened to me yesterday...mind you that was with the RAW thumbnail viewer and I was viewing a TIFF image at 550mb. It opened an hour earlier...and still opened in PS. So the image was okay.
 07/16/2007 04:26:51 PM · #13
Happened to me yesterday as well. I was able to open theand view the file, but when I clicked the icon to expand it to fulle size, i got the dreaded "Drwing Failed". Perhaps there was something in Microsoft's last round of patches that broke it?
 07/16/2007 07:07:30 PM · #14
ah, its happening to more and more of you.. glad it wasnt just me. onto the tech forums to ask around a bit.
 07/18/2007 07:46:53 PM · #15
yeah, i get that error too, intermitently but very often. usually the image will display if i retry.

i never had the problem until very recently. so it might be related to some MSFT updates.

Message edited by author 2007-07-18 19:47:30.
 08/03/2007 12:51:55 AM · #16
Ive been getting the same problem the past few weeks
If I open windows fax and picture viewer and double click on a thumnail iI recieve "drawing failed" if I rotate the picture it shows at 100%. Very frustrating! Has anyone come up with a reason?

Ps I don't use RAW format
 05/24/2011 11:12:58 AM · #17
I have been saving for web, anim gifs in photoshop, different portions of the anim timeline. four of them work fine in the folder viewer but two of them say 'drawing failed'. nothing was done different in the rendering of these two anim gifs. I checked them in the ie browser and they displayed fine, I tried copying the commands you guys have posted in the start/run process. I even installed a microsoft patch that is said to get rid of this problem. nothing worked. I did the classic thing of restarting my machine, deleting the original renders and rendering them again, still got drawing failed. then as a control method I rendered one of the previous anims that worked and it still worked. I then went back to the photoshop files and remade them. it still rendered the first four anims and frustratingly would not render the same two that have been causing me so much grief. why is this happening. I have been working with photoshop now for 15 years and know it inside out and have never encountered this problem before. it defies logic. as a problem, it is as stupid as Miley cyrus another something that defies logic
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