[Gimp-user] gimp says cannot open image

[Helen]

I seem to have damaged a string of photos.  Gimp cannot open
them, nor can any other program.

names (straight from camera) are pb190014.jpg (and successive numbers).

The error message from gimp says

Opening (imagename) failed. Plug-In could not open image.
Not a JPEG file.  Starts with Oxff Oxff



Does anyone have any ideas about what happened, or how I
might recover.  (Actually, I just realized this is not, strictly
speaking a Gimp question -- it's just that I use Gimp.  I apologize
if this is off-subject.)

Helen, using Gimp 2.2.10

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using Linux, SuSE 10
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