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can I descramble jpeg code?

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cheese

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I have a file in an email that's supposed to be a jpeg, but is scrambled into code. I'm 99.9% sure it's not encrypted. (the rest is ok) What can I do to translate this mess into the image? I don't really have a dedicated viewer, I just use IE.
 
You're probably looking at the ASCII equivilent of the hexcode that makes up the jpeg file and not all hexcode converts to ASCII. So you probably won't be able to recover the file.
 
It's probalby MIME coded. but usually your email software should automatically decode MIME with no problem, unless it has errors or something. you can probably find some MIME decoder some where on the net and try to do it yourself.

 
It's possible that someone only sent you part of the .jpg by accident or that the header is damaged/corrupted. Without the file header telling Windows it's a .jpg, the OS will default to a text viewer and you'll see ASCII garbage instead. The file as-is is probably toast.
 
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