random uploads showing as blank

[paulr11863689]

I moved a few thousand pictures from an iphone to my PC.  they are all visible on both the iphone and the PC.  I uploaded them to Lightroom CC directly from my PC.  They are all jpg.  About 1 in 5 of the photos are blank.  If I click on the photo it says "an unexpected end-of-file occured".  It has all the data for the photo. If I delete a given blank photo and reupload it, the same error occurs. I can see the photo in the preview, but when I click add then boom.  blank and end-of-file comment.

It is a nightmare.

I assume that something occured in the transfer from the iphone to the PC, they show OK on the PC but somehow lightroom is more "sensitive" to some sort of file corruption?

[paulr11863689]

In fact I'm pretty sure its a problem with the upload to the PC so ignore me

[alan_7530]

That actually is frustrating, especially with such a huge batch of photos involved. Just curious..when you say they’re visible on the PC, do they open fine in something like Windows Photos or another viewer (not just in thumbnail form)? I’ve run into similar issues before where the file seems okay, but some internal structure gets messed up during transfer—especially if it’s via a non-standard method like drag-and-drop or third-party apps.

Did you transfer them using iTunes, the Windows Photos app, or something else? Also, are these .JPGs coming straight from the iPhone camera, or were they edited or shared via apps like WhatsApp or AirDrop before landing on the PC? Sometimes those layers of processing create weird encoding issues that Lightroom doesn’t like.

You’re probably right that Lightroom is being more “picky,” since it tends to validate the file structure more deeply than some other apps that just try to display what they can. Would be interesting to check if something like ExifTool shows broken metadata on those specific files.

Have you tried re-transferring just one of the problematic images using a different method—like via iCloud or even emailing it to yourself as an attachment—to see if it still shows that EOF error?