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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:21:35+00:00

I have some JPEG files that I can’t seem to load into my C#

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I have some JPEG files that I can’t seem to load into my C# application. They load fine into other applications, like the GIMP. This is the line of code I’m using to load the image:

System.Drawing.Image img = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(@"C:\Image.jpg");

The exception I get is: “A generic error occurred in GDI+.”, which really isn’t very helpful. Has anyone else run into this, or know a way around it?

Note: If you would like to test the problem you can download a test image that doesn’t work in C#.

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  1. Editorial Team

    .Net isn’t handling the format of that particular image, potentially because the jpeg data format is slightly broken or non-standard. If you load the image into GIMP and save to a new file you can then load it with the Image class. Presumably GIMP is a bit more forgiving of file format problems.

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