.JPG Files are Supported but Something Went Wrong.

[Iniesta]

Hi there, I'm a freelance photographer / creative and I use Dropbox for most of my clients simply because it's fast and it is always fuss-free when it comes to sharing across deliverables or photographs. I never had a problem with Dropbox for the past 4 years or so and now I'm constantly facing this issue which really annoys me and I might change Cloud if this problem persists or if there isn't any solution to this. I've went through most parts of this forum and google-d for solution but none of it works. If anyone could help - this would be greatly appreciated.

Some information that you all might need or ask.

Screenshot of the problem:

*This is a screenshot that my client(s) sent me. I though it might be a one-off thing but I'm getting the same problem from 2 or more clients already.

Details:

- I am using Dropbox Professional - I am only utilizing 256GB out of my available 2TB Storage.

- I am using Windows and not Macbook/Apple.

- The photographs are viewable on my end, I can open them in Preview / Photo Viewer

- The files are not extremely large, each photo is about 2-3MB only.

- I've tried re-exporting photographs in even lower-resolution and my client still are unable to view the photographs.

- My clients tried using 2 different phones (Apple), a Windows Computer but they're unable to view the photographs still.

- I sent them with an "anyone with the link" can view or access the folder option.

- File names do not have funky lettering or data / titles. They are all named - DSC1001.jpg (and so on..)

- Photographs are not uploaded via external storage. All internal storage HDD, then uploaded onto Dropbox folder (newly created folders)

- I've tried clearing my browser cache and I still face this problem

*I won't say this is a solution but with the same folder and files, I used another cloud platform and it worked for my client.

PLEASE HELP.

I LOVE DROPBOX AND I WANT TO CONTINUE BEING A USER

[Jay19741]

I've been posting pictures to a group in a hiking forum for years and have never had a problem until yesterday when I received the same error message. 

Here is the link to the photos. If you click on an individual photo it will appear for an instant before the message pops up.

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[Iniesta]

Hi Megan,

That is absolutely not the culprit here.

I just mentioned that my files are usually 2-3 MB and up to 5MB.

So the files should be able to be previewed to whoever I share with, and I am still facing this issue with .jpgs that are < 5MB. And there are more people in this thread that are all facing this issue too.

Mentioning 100-500MB was a possible situation and not what is ongoing currently but yes if we’re talking about 100-500MB then I agree that previewing could be a problem.

But pls fix the “not supported issue” for <5MB files.

[Megan]

Hey @Jay19741, thanks for posting here! 

I've removed your shared link, to avoid any traffic to your account. Have you by any chance tried the above steps provided in the thread? 

Also, @Iniesta, your comments on this have been quite helpful, and I will do everything I can to ensure that your voice is heard.

Can you give me an example of how many megapixels your images are while they don't reach the size limit? 

[Jay19741]

Megan,

The size of the photos is unchanged from prior postings but the number of pictures in the file is much greater than on prior occasions. I suspect that is the reason for the issue. We'll see how it works out next week. Thank you for your reply and thanks for removing the link!

[Iniesta]

Thanks for that.

Like I mentioned, the file sizes are less than 5MB.

Each image is different in the exact megapixels dependent on the image too.

For example - (actual numbers)

Image 6303 - 2.55MB

Image 6304 - 2.43MB

[Hannah]

Sorry for the delay here, @Jay19741 and @Iniesta.

Can you let me know if you're still having trouble with this?

[Iniesta]

Yup @Hannah 

It hasn't been fixed.

The only solution was to delete the first link generated, re-create a new link.

But like I mentioned previously, I can't possibly repeat the solution every single time I'm pushing out a folder.

Regards

[Jay19741]

No problem Hannah. Everything seemed fine last week and there were no photos this week so I'm guessing that was the problem. Thanks!

[CharissaJ12]

I read through the thread about many people having an issue with viewing .jpg files in dropbox and after downloading them, the last post was 2 years ago so I just wanted to know how did this issue get resolved?

I am having the same problem today. I uploaded all of my wedding photos to Dropbox a few years ago to keep them somewhere I could always access them and now I can't view any of them. I typically use Chrome but tried Firefox and incognito browsers and still got the same issue. I can't preview the files within Dropbx and once downloaded I get the "unsupported" error. 

These files were viewable when I first uploaded them. I have other folders with .jpg files that I can preview/download and view. It is just this one, very important folder that I can't access. 
 

[Vicker]

Hi, @CharissaJ12 ,

I notice that the browser's URL is pointing to the filename that starts with "._1209.....". May I ask if the files that you are trying to upload really begins with a dot? Or that only happens after uploading the file to Dropbox?

The dot prefix for a file usually refers to hidden files, so I am not sure whether the file is incorrectly named or there are some file upload issues. In case it is the former, you may try to rename the file locally without a dot prefix to see if the problem could be resolved.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Vicker