File wrong type

Why cant I open jpgs that were imported from my iPhone?

What happens when you try?
Any error messages?
Are there any "funny" characters in the file names?
Can you open the files with another program?
We really need more information.

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I have created a movie several times in FCP and then exported the movie to QT without any problems. Now all of a sudden, I can't get the movie to export correctly. After the 2 hour export, I'll check on FCP to find that the program has shut down without an "Unexpected Shut Down" message. I check for the exported movie which I find in the saved folder. I click to open and verify the completed job, but find that I get an error instead : "Error: Wrong Type".
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About a third of the time the icon for the saved image appears as a file and not a thumbnail of the image in my saved folder.
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Incidentally, you're not talking to adobe here, just to other users like yourself.
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I just got the new Panesonic Lumix DMC-G3 and took some pictures with it today and found that Photoshop Elements couldn't open the pictures because they were the "wrong type of file". Now the file format is a Raw .RW2 and I have opened many of them before in the past and they have been just fine! I think it may be that Photoshop isn't updated yet, because I checked and I had no new updates but do any of you have any ideas as to how I could fix this?! (Besides switching to JPEG)
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I have scanned lots of pictures and saved them as jpegs or tiffs, etc in Elements 6 and had no problems, but the last few pictures I've scanned (Epson V500 photo scanner) and have saved in "my pictures" using Elements 6, are not visable. When I try to open the image (that has no picture), it says "can not open - wrong type of file." As far as I know, I haven't changed any buttons and I've been scanning as I usually do. Has anyone encountered this message and if so, what is the answer?
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When I got back the new drive w/ the rescued files It seemed like it was all there until I tried to open one of the .fcp files and encountered this:
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-B

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I have been archiving some old finished videos (as self-contained QTs) on a server that is PC based. I have a feeling that this may be a problem. I'm right, right?
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Any advice is tremendously appreciated.
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