Windows 10: JPEG files that seem to take up 14.8 gb space and cannot be opened

Hi guys

I made the mistake to cut / paste a bunch of pictures from my Galaxy 8 onto my laptop. Now all the pictures in jpeg format seem to be corrupted or something.
No viewer can open them. Windows say they take up 14.8 gb of space each.
And they drained all harddrive space on my computer.
If I select all of the picture files, Windows tells me they take up 40 tb !? This is on a laptop with a small 256 gb harddrive.
What is going on? And is there any way to recover the pictures?



Hope you can help me! I really don't want to lose all my pictures of family and friends.

:)

 

Windows Updates downloads 14 GB and fills drive

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• In a FAQ it said Windows 10 uses approximately 10 GBs of disk space.
  
  Windows 10 can upgrade such systems with as little as 8.5 GB of free space.
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What I've done so far:

I run Ccleaner and Windows Disk Cleaner (cleanmgr) regularly. I set settings to store personal files on an external SD-card. I've disabled Hibernate and indexing of C drive. I reduced the paging file. I uninstalled a few programs that were stored in C.
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CSV files used to open in Excel....not now!


Hi, you say Excel is installed. Does it run normally?

You can't find Excel in (an unspecified) list of applications. I don't know which list that is for sure.

For example, in the list related to:
- rt click a file. Open With
- this list:



- this list:




- some other list...

If Excel does not appear in the above, I suggest you repair your office installation.

Maybe the above gives you some ideas. Otherwise please post a screenshot of where you think you should see it but don't. Thanks.