File Format Error on downloaded photos

[drazenmd]

Hi Phil and Exiftool community,
I have some photos which I downloaded from phone backup and I can't open them now. With EXIF tool I get "File Format Error". Can you please check what is problem with these photos.
Regards

[StarGeek]

A quick look shows that it's missing the jpeg id pattern at the start of the file.  I also looked for a more obvious jpeg chunk marker and didn't see any.  Hopefully, someone with more experience will check it out but I think the file has been too corrupted.

[Hayo Baan]

Like stargeek, I too had a look at the file, but it looks like the file is really corrupted; I can not find a JPG in there either. Perhaps Phil is able to find it, but he is currently away so it may take a while for him to have a look at it.

[drazenmd]

Thank you for fast action. It's really a bad news. Is it possible to get preview of this file?

[Hayo Baan]

The problem with your file is that there is no discernible (jpg) image data. Thinking differently here, could it be that the file is encrypted?

[drazenmd]

It shoudn't be encrypted. Some files from that location I can open and some no. Is it possible to copy exif data from picture which I can open to another one dameged. It's same camera that made photos

[Hayo Baan]

I'm afraid these files are beyond repair (if they really are image files). I think there was something wrong with your backup; the filename doesn't look right either...

[vektorsoft]

Found the problem. this is a webp file with a .jpeg extension
Something similar you should encounter downloading 500px images by the way...

[Phil Harvey]

That is not a WEBP image.  ExifTool supports reading WEBP files, and would tell you if it was a WEBP file.

- Phil