Recover functions recovers only 4 images instead of 50 - c

Question

I wrote this code to recover 50 images from cs50 pset4 recover. The code can only retrieve 4 images all of which are not the right ones. It is compiling fine. When i use printf to debug it seems like the if(found) piece of code runs many times when name_count == 0 more than it is supposed to.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
typedef uint8_t BYTE;
const int BLOCK_SIZE = 152;
bool is_a_jpeg(BYTE *buffer);
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
//Check if there are exactly two commandline arguments
if (argc != 2)
{
printf("usage: ./IMAGE\n");
return 1;
}
//Open a storage device and chack if it has data
FILE *input = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (input == NULL)
{
fclose(input);
printf("Could not open file.\n");
return 2;
}
//Create a file to write into and clear it
FILE *img = NULL;
//Declar an interger of counting images
int name_count = 0;
// create buffer
BYTE buffer[BLOCK_SIZE];
//Declare space for saving the filename
char filename[8];
//Declare a bolean variable used to check for already found images
bool found = false;
//A function for reading through the device looking for images
while (fread(buffer, BLOCK_SIZE, 1, input))
{
//If a jpeg image is found notify the program(set found = true)
//and start writing the data to a new file
if (is_a_jpeg(buffer))
{
found = true;
//If we are not writing the first image, close the previous one
if (name_count > 0)
{
fclose(img);
}
//Create incrementing filenames for each new picture i.e 000.jpg, 001.jpg etc.
sprintf(filename, "%03d.jpg", name_count);
//Open an initially created empty file and start writing to it
img = fopen (filename, "w");
name_count++;
fwrite(buffer, BLOCK_SIZE, 1, img);
}
//Continue writing to a file as soon as it is found until another JPEG image is found
if(found)
{
fwrite(buffer, BLOCK_SIZE, 1, img);
}
}
//Close all the files
fclose(input);
fclose(img);
return 0;
}
//Function to check for a JPEG Image
bool is_a_jpeg(BYTE *buffer)
{
return buffer[0] == 0xff &&
buffer[1] == 0xd8 &&
buffer[2] == 0xff &&
(buffer[3] & 0xf0) == 0xe0;
}
cs50 results for check50
printing dot everytime if(found) code runs. The code unnecessarily spends a lot of time on the first image before closing it

Answer 1

There are some problems in the posted code:
the block size should be 512 bytes, not 152.
you should not fclose(file) if fopen failed. This has undefined behavior.
you unconditionally close img at the end, which may have undefined behavior if no JPG file was found or if the last JPG file could not be open.
both the disk image file and the jpg destination files must be open in binary mode. This may explain unexpected behavior if you are working on Windows.
Here is a modified version:
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
typedef uint8_t BYTE;
const int BLOCK_SIZE = 512;
bool is_a_jpeg(const BYTE *buffer);
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
//Check if there are exactly two commandline arguments
if (argc != 2) {
printf("usage: ./IMAGE\n");
return 1;
}
//Open a storage device and check if it has data
FILE *input = fopen(argv[1], "rb");
if (input == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not open file %s: %s.\n", argv[1], strerror(errno));
return 2;
}
//Create a file to write into and clear it
FILE *img = NULL;
//Declare an integer of counting images
int name_count = 0;
// create buffer
BYTE buffer[BLOCK_SIZE];
//Declare space for saving the filename
char filename[16];
//A function for reading through the device looking for images
while (fread(buffer, BLOCK_SIZE, 1, input)) {
//If a jpeg image is found notify the program(set found = true)
//and start writing the data to a new file
if (is_a_jpeg(buffer)) {
//close the current image file if any
if (img) {
fclose(img);
img = NULL;
}
//Create incrementing filenames for each new picture i.e 000.jpg, 001.jpg etc.
sprintf(filename, "%03d.jpg", name_count);
name_count++;
//Create an empty file and start writing to it
img = fopen(filename, "wb");
if (img == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Could not open output file %s: %s.\n", filename, strerror(errno));
}
}
//Continue writing to a file as soon as it is found until another JPEG image is found
if (img) {
if (!fwrite(buffer, BLOCK_SIZE, 1, img)) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error writing to %s: %s.\n", filename, strerror(errno));
fclose(img);
img = NULL;
}
}
}
//Close all the files
fclose(input);
if (img)
fclose(img);
return 0;
}
//Function to check for a JPEG Image
bool is_a_jpeg(const BYTE *buffer) {
return buffer[0] == 0xff &&
buffer[1] == 0xd8 &&
buffer[2] == 0xff &&
(buffer[3] & 0xf0) == 0xe0;
}