Attempt to set Authors property on jpg sometimes yields 0x80070216 Arithmetic result exceeded 32 Bits.
Had this problem on 6 images in a set of 200 or so. Used right-click->properties on a set of jpg files in a directory. Entered data in the details tab to add to the Authors property, which had been unset. Most files worked, six failed with error 0x80070216 Arithmetic result exceeded 32 bits. Tried on both Win 7 Pro (64bit) and Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit same result. Tried it with and without virus scanner enabled - same result. Tried changing the name of the file, no difference. Used Photoshop CS5 to regenerate the jpg files in question - same result. Any ideas on how to fix or avoid this problem?
June 11th, 2011 12:16pm

Here's an old kb article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281214 which names that exact same error code. It probably has nothing to do with what you're seeing. But it explains that once upon a time, some currency setting somehow caused some math to overflow. Or something like that. Could that be at the root of your issue too? Are there numbers or symbols in whatever you're editing there? If your image files are not too personal, maybe you'd upload a sample to your Skydrive account so we can look at them in this forum. (Or Photos.Live.com) Personally, I'd be curious to replicate that bug. Seems like fun.
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June 11th, 2011 3:40pm

Here's an old kb article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281214 which names that exact same error code. It probably has nothing to do with what you're seeing. But it explains that once upon a time, some currency setting somehow caused some math to overflow. Or something like that. Could that be at the root of your issue too? Are there numbers or symbols in whatever you're editing there? If your image files are not too personal, maybe you'd upload a sample to your Skydrive account so we can look at them in this forum. (Or Photos.Live.com) Personally, I'd be curious to replicate that bug. Seems like fun.
June 11th, 2011 3:40pm

The property I'm editing is "Authors" on the details tab. It was empty before I started, and I tried to enter my name - strictly alphabetic characters iso_latin_1 or whatever the default U.S. english character mapping is for Windows 7 Pro out-of-the-box. Here's one example of a problem picture posted on my flickr account. Feel free to download this file for the purpose of reproducing the problem I described, but the photographer retains copyright and it should not be republished. Thanks for taking a look... http://www.flickr.com/photos/21655363@N03/5840444699/ I was able to see the problem on the downloaded file following these steps. (1) follow the link. (2) Click "view all sizes" (3) Click "original size" (4) Choose "download original size" (325KB) I opened the downloads folder for my web browser, rightclicked on properties, chose the details tab (observe that Authors is blank) Typed my name into the authors texbox and pressed apply. On my vista 64bit pc I get a progress bar in a popup telling me that the property is being applied, followed by the error dialog.
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June 16th, 2011 8:04pm

I think you'll find when you signout from Flickr that you haven't given us (the rest of the world) permission to download your file. It says "The owner has disabled downloading of their photos". Oops. Anyway, I did manage to download the "large" photo, which is 700x560 232KB 72dpi bit depth 24 blah blah. And I entered an arbitrary Author name. Nothing odd happened. I understand that's not the same thing as the "original size" (325KB). But it was the best I could do, considering. Well. I tried. : )
June 17th, 2011 1:55am

Ooops. Sorry. I fixed the license, so anyone can download the original file, and tried it from my guest login - it worked this time. I do note that the file is marked "read only" after I downloaded it, but that can be unchecked on the general tab. Otherwise, I was able to reproduce the problem... I would welcome suggestions... Thanks in advanceBDBDBD
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June 17th, 2011 6:49pm

Holy mackerel. I figured I'd take a look with Vista32+IE8 first. And there it is. What in the world is that all about!?
June 17th, 2011 7:12pm

Holy mackerel. I figured I'd take a look with Vista32+IE8 first. I edited-in the author "penguin", and there it is. Error 0x80070216. I've since booted Win7-64 and downloaded it again. I tried changing some of the other parameters, even tried to Remove Properties and Personal Information. The same Error 0x80070216 occurs no matter what. I guess Windows (of any flavor) doesn't like what's in there. I wonder what's different between the earlier 700x560 "large" copy I downloaded, and this 700x560 "original" ? They seem to have all the same properties. Except for this. Yet there's over 100KB difference between them.
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June 17th, 2011 7:18pm

I've no idea whether this is relevant, but could it have to do with byte order? On W7Pro 64-bit I compared an image for which I could edit the Authors property with your sample where I too got the error, using JPEGSnoop. The first significant difference I noticed was in their endianness; the successful one big, the failed one little (having been edited on a Mac). Are all the ones that fail for you little endian? And all the ones that don't big endian? Noel
June 18th, 2011 6:11am

That's really interesting and a terrific guess - probably not the root problem in this case, no macs involved at all... We made ~200 images on the same camera, downloaded all on the same Win7Pro 64Bit PC, edited using Photoshop CS5. Three failed. Dorean resized each of them (smaller) in Photoshop, The resized images also fail. It is most peculiar. Dorean posted one of the images that worked for comparison, and carefully set licensing for download to anyone (*sigh*) for comparison if you like. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21655363@N03/5845527186/ I'm beginning to wonder if there isn't a little bug somewhere. Just imagine :-)BDBDBD
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June 18th, 2011 10:51am

Thanks for your effort exploring this issue. Sounds like you gave it a workout! I investigated the color representation and resolution unit properties - it looks like that's how they all come out. I posted a similar image that doesn't exhibit the problem for comparison if you're interested... http://www.flickr.com/photos/21655363@N03/5845527186/ Isn't this weird? BDBDBD
June 18th, 2011 11:07am

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