Is my Hard Disk about to fail?

I am scared that there is something seriously wrong with my Hard disk or something because the following keeps happening:
I was trying to get a picture from my pictures folder to show on my wife’s Desktop (same Mac). I copied the .jpg file to the shared folder. Then under her login tried to set it as the desktop image. Preferences kept quitting unexpectedly and when I try to open the file I get the above message. Back under my login the picture opens fine in preview. Under my wife’s login it will not even import into iPhoto. I have tried moving the file to other locations.
Eventually the only way I could get the picture into my wife’s folders was to e-mail it.
Can anyone help?

You need to repair permissions, go to user Applications>Utilities> Disk Utility and repair permissions as each user.
Then get info on the picture and make rue it's unlocked so you both can access it,
please post back,

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