Solution for “Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50)”

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I recently faced a problem opening some JPG images that I have downloaded somewhere over the internet, probably Twitter. So I though I’d share the problem and the simple solution.

When I tried opening an image I got the following error

Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50)

As the error states I was trying to open an image with a JPEG extension but which was not actually a JPEG image. To further verify this and know the actually format I ran this command in the terminal:

file file_name.jpg

which will give you something like this:

PNG image data, 346 x 480, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced

The solution was to imply replace .jpg or .jpeg with the appropriate format, .png in this case.

References

I can’t open .jpg files, what to do?, Ask Ubuntu
Why am I getting the error: “Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50”, StackOverflow

4 thoughts on “Solution for “Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x89 0x50)””

  2. zmitchell

    I tried that command on my unviewable .jpg and all I was told was “JPEG image data” but I still can’t view the .jpgs. Still annoyed with my gnome. Any further assistance would be appreciated.

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