Title: Scrambled Images
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Scrambled Images

 *  Resolved [Ethan Lemke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elemke/)
 * (@elemke)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scrambled-images/)
 * Hello,
 * When I upload an image to WordPress media library, its icon appears but it will
   be skewed or mashed with transparency, random colors, and colors from the image.
   If you click on the image to make a larger, it displays fine. If I change the
   file name and upload the image again it will not mash up the image.
 * It almost seems as though the beginning image is compressed properly (say the
   top 16 rows of pixels) and then the rest is scrambled after that.
 * I could not replicate this on my dev server, but my dev server is not an exact
   replicate of my prod server.
 * Also, this started when the update for WordPress 4.4.2 was rolled out.
 * Thank you,
    Ethan
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 *  [Umesh Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshsingla/)
 * (@umeshsingla)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scrambled-images/#post-7028566)
 * Hi [@elemke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elemke/),
 * > Also, this started when the update for WordPress 4.4.2 was rolled out.
 * Before WordPress update, was it all working fine?
 * Cheers
 *  Thread Starter [Ethan Lemke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elemke/)
 * (@elemke)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scrambled-images/#post-7028614)
 * Hi Umesh,
 * Yes. Up until my WordPress instance updated to 4.4.2, everything was working 
   fine.
 * Thank you,
    Ethan
 *  [Umesh Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshsingla/)
 * (@umeshsingla)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scrambled-images/#post-7028761)
 * Hi [@ethan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ethan/) Lemke,
 * Extremely sorry, that I didn’t follow up.
 * Can you possibly create a replica on staging and see if you are facing the same
   issue.
 * If it does, I’ll need your help to debug this one.
 * Thanks

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Umesh Kumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/umeshsingla/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/scrambled-images/#post-7028761)
 * Status: resolved