JPE instead of JPG

[Dave Roddick]

Okay, I'm going to try this again.

Every time I try to save a picture as a JPG file, the
extension is always ".JPE". I am tired of typing in
the ".jpg" extension every time I try to save a picture,
or else renaming them all later.

It seemed to start doing this after I emptied my
temporary internet files to rectify the "untitled.bmp"
problem that others have mentioned.

How can I go back to automatically saving jpeg files with
a ".jpg" extension?

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Are you sure you are seeing the whole file extension ? Sounds like its
trying to save as .JPEG

 

[Dave]

When I view the file properties after saving it, it shows
it as "filename.jpe"; and when I try to save other
pictures, in the "save as" dialog box, the "jpe" files
don't show. This can get to be a real pain.
I can type in the .jpg extension when I save it, but that
gets tedious.

 

[Tedd Riggs]

I can see it would be a royal pain.
How about if you just click your "My Computer", then go to VIEW-->Folder
Options-->File Types and scroll down until you get to JPEG Image, there
should be two of these, usually the one you want is the first and will read
EXTENSIONS JPEG,JPG,JPE, Click EDIT and make sure that the third box down
that reads "Default Extension for Content Type" is .jpg and the line above
that has the "Content Type: MIME has "Image/jpeg" selected. My guess is the
"Default Extension.." for yours might be set at .JPE and that will cause the
problem you are having,.
Hope this works for you !
Tedd

 

[Dave Roddick]

Thanks. It sounds like we might be on the right track,
but I'm using XP, and my File Types lists JPE, JPEG, and
JPG as separate entries on the list. There is no "Default
extension" in this particular box.
Does XP have a different location where this can be found?

 

[Tedd Riggs]

AH sorry about that, I have been so busy with Win98 questions I did not
think of the others, But if your file type lists it as default, to my
knowledge, that means it will save it in whatever format it is displayed in,
so I would think you would want to change that to JPG. My XP unit is
undergoing brain surgery at the moment, so I cannot look it up for you.
Hopefully someone else will.

 

[sam]

Tedd,

thanks for the advice, but the options you mentioned to
not appear in WinXP home. I did not see "default extension
for content type" or the "Content Type:MIME"....

any ideas?

thanks so much in advance.