Windows XP jpeg saving while renaming problem

[Raybaby 0]

Ok, you ready for a strange one ?

Windows XP, Internet Explorer, you find a nice jpeg you want to save, you click save (and let's say the name of the jpeg is 'Test'), so you click save & you get the message 'a file of that name already exists, do wish to replace it ?'. So obviously you don't wish to, as the picture is different but only the name is the same, so at that moment you click at the end of 'Test' and change it to 'Test01' or "Xtest', whatever...it doesnt' matter, the save goes ahead fine.

 

Now the problem comes later when you use Windows XP default viewer or for that matter any Microsoft viewer, when you go to open 'Test01' or whatever it says, Windows does not know what program to open it with, please select a program from the list'. Well it don't matter which program you use, none of them will open it. The file although selected to save as jpeg, never saved as jpeg....but FILE.

Now if you go into Paint & select open, then 'All Files' (as the default is BMP (bitmap), you can then change FILE into jpeg......but you have to do this with every jpeg you save/rename in this way.

 

Why is this important to fix ? well it's very annoying....just try it.....arrrrgghhhh, plus it does not happen in Windows 2000, ME, 98SE, 98 & 95.....only in Windows XP. BTW this does this in Windows XP normal (before Service Pack 1) & after Service Pack 1, so it has nothing to do with that.

 

Also this has nothing to do with the Internet cache, being full (the 'can only save as BMP..not jpeg fault) , you can clear you cache & there is no change to this fault.

 

As extra info, if you use a program like Compupic, it displays these files as thumbnails properly, but it still lables their extension as FILE, you then have to select rename batch, rename them & select to rename with extension 'jpeg', then and only then does Windows XP recognise them as jpegs, this is alot of playing around to FIX something that should not even be broken !

 

BTW Even if you 'associate' FILE to always open with a certain program, it will not stay, everytime you want to open FILE you have to do this, very annoying.

[nebulus 0]

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Windows XP, Internet Explorer, you find a nice jpeg you want to save, you click save (and let's say the name of the jpeg is 'Test'), so you click save & you get the message 'a file of that name already exists, do wish to replace it ?'. So obviously you don't wish to, as the picture is different but only the name is the same, so at that moment you click at the end of 'Test' and change it to 'Test01' or "Xtest', whatever...it doesnt' matter, the save goes ahead fine.

Have you ever thought of saving it as "Test01.jpg" instead of just "Test01"?

[Raybaby 0]

Thanks Nebulus, that solved the problem.....amazing you can think that it should be more complicated than that & yet it turns out to be very simple.

Still though there obviously is a flaw in Windows XP to have to type .jpg at the end, it's not required in any other Windows operating system ODD lol

 

Thanks again.

[Raybaby 0]

Actually I've managed to acheive a bit of extra self help on this one, by going into Control Panel, then Folder options, then View & 'unticking' HIDE EXTENSIONS FOR KNOWN FILE TYPES, this problem is solved, the only down side is that you see the extensions all the time of course, 'test.jpeg' instead of 'test'.....but hey anything that reduces extra keystrokes is a bonus/time saver lol