Corrupt or lost file

When printing a series of four photos each on letter size photo paper I hit one group of four that would not print and gave me the message that one of the JPG images "either cannot be located or is corrupt." Is there a way to determine whether there are corrupt or missing files in an Event folder before attempting to print copies or burn a CD or DVD?

Because it says it's incompatible when it can't be, I got hope. I get error messages all the time with my iPod and iPhone that it cannot sync and that 'this device is not capapble of connecting to iTunes' stuff. I literally forget that happened, plug it in again and it works, I later realize that iTunes made a mistake, they do that.

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