On certain websites, after a jpeg has finished loading, I right click to save the file, but in the options the only file format is “bmp” and the filename would be “untitled”...does anyone know why that happens and if there are any workarounds?

Clear your browser cache.

thanks..I’ll try that next time I encounter the same problem…

just wondering, shouldn’t I get untitled.bmp for all websites then?

Hey Drachen, I got the same problem with my desktop now so I cleared the cache, but it didn’t work so I cleared the history and cookies too…still it didn’t work. Then I went back and reloaded the page…still no success…ne ideas what to do :?  :?

Hi

Found a kb article which might help but also mentions clearing chache.

Regards
Chris

It’s really wierd since its happening with this page:

but I tried it with another website and that worked fine. MS has also mentioned another reason for such a thing happening, but that box is already unchecked for me :?

Just check that out and i get the same thing on that page!! will do some investigating..

thanks…let me know the results and solution

I find that it may be related to the fact that your loading the jpg file directly into IE e.g. its displaying jpg rather than jpg in an html file. I tested this on another page and found the same.

oh no, trust me I’ve been lots of pages which have displayed just a single jpg file on a page (the url ends in .jpg like the one I’ve given) but I was able to save the file(s) without any hassles.

the plot thickens then

yes, any one around to solve it ??   

I’ve seen this on numerous occasions in the past, and I think I had a solution for it.  What I did was to right-click on the file, select “Save As,” and the name the file IMAGENAME.jpg.  I would actually put the .jpg extension in the filename location, and if I remember correctly that did save the file in its true JPG file format.  Give that a try, and let us know if that worked for you or not.

It does save the file as filename.jpg instead of untitled.bmp but I think the actual file format still stays .bmp since the filesize in this case is 2.25 megs while the actual jpg file is just 225 KB’s.

So did you then try my suggestion, or is what you said here just speculation?  If that trick didn’t work you could always use a program like SnagIt that can capture anything & everything that shows on your screen.  This program was a must-have for me, so I might just use that when I run into the dreaded .bmp file saving scare.

I did try what u said…it wasn’t speculation. As far as using that image capture program is concerned, what do u do if the image dimensions is greater than the resolution u have set ?

There’s a much better way…u can easily get the url for the image by right clicking it and seeing the properties or if it’s a single jpg file the url displayed in the address bar is the url to the image itself..just copy that url and use a file downloading program like flashget.

Another way…just create an .htm and insert the following code into it

and put the url of the image after the =

eg.

so now when u open the .htm file u’ll see a link called download..right click the link and select “Save Target as…” and then download it.

this method is cheap but it works

or finally, u could save the file as a .bmp file and convert it to jpeg format.