Windows 10: Is there any way to recover a photo with 0 bytes size on disk but the original size is 3.66 MB?

I try to locate an old pictures on my pc. the pictures that I found have properties of 3.66 mb but size on disk is 0. please look at the attached captured screen. is there any way to recover the photo to its original size?

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NTFS problem: 0 byte file but "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB"

Ok, so you created a file whose size according to Explorer was 0 bytes, but size on disk was 3.98GB (interestingly enough it's easy to do the opposite, i.e. create a sparse file whose size is a few bytes or GBs or whatever, but size on disk is 0 bytes).

However after that why exactly where you using data recovery tools? Did you delete the file by mistake?

Have you tried actually looking at the contents of the file with a hex editor or something? Or tried a disk editor to view the file on disk? How do you even know for sure that the file has/had any useful data inside?

 

NTFS problem: 0 byte file but "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB"

By using a Python script, I managed to mistakenly create a 4GB file on an NTFS USB drive with a colon in the filename. The resulting file name was all of the text up until the colon, but the file is listed as being 0 bytes. BUT when I check the file properties
it says "Size On Disk: 3.98 GB (4,282,056,704 bytes)". When I used a file recovery program such as Recuva and MiniTool Power Data Recovery, all 4GB seem to copy to another drive, but it still shows that it's 0 bytes (Size On Disk 3.98 GB).

Any advice as to what I could try next to fix this issue?

The file cannot be replaced easily so I'd like to get it back.

I'm not averse to low level disk editing if it comes to that.

Thanks in advance!

 

Photo's JPG size reduction

Many thanks DaveM121

WOW! I just learned something new and important for editing my photos.

You provided me with excellent quick steps to re-size the photo.

To play it safe, I made a copy of the original photo and performed your editing steps on the copied photo. I assume that by keeping the original photo . . . the higher MBs photo, I will be able to have large prints made in high resolution.

To e-mail photos for viewing only, the re-sized photo is the best way.

Regarding your first possible suggestion of an E-mail app that provides an option to automatically reduce the JPG size, my e-mail app/program is Microsoft Outlook 2016. If it's okay with you, I'd appreciate your step-by-step procedure to re-size photos.

Thanks again,

Barry G