Jpegs changed to dat?

[Guest]

Hi all, please help. I needed to send some important photos to work but they
were not named so I renamed them. They all changed to dat files and work
cannot open them!
How do I changed them back to JPeg?
Many thanks

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

Hi all, please help. I needed to send some important photos to work but they
were not named so I renamed them. They all changed to dat files and work
cannot open them!
How do I changed them back to JPeg?

Have you tried just renaming them with .jpg as the suffix?

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."

 

[Gord Dibben]

If the pictures had no names, how did you know they existed?

If they had no names, how did you "rename" them?

Surely they originally had a name like Joe or Pete or Gord.

Did they have an extension like JPG or similar?

How did you rename them?

Give us a step by step description of your process for renaming.

How and from what to what.

What email program did you use to send them?

As attachments or in body of email?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Mary Sauer]

You have to assume the pictures with no names were numbered as the way cameras
number photos.
Open folder options in the control panel, view tab, clear "Hide extensions for
known file types."
When you rename a photo, leave the file extension un-named, just rename the
photo.

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

You have to assume the pictures with no names were numbered as the way cameras
number photos.
Open folder options in the control panel, view tab, clear "Hide extensions for
known file types."

I have to say, hiding file extensions as the default seems quite
dangerous, as in this case, and unsafe, too (you might not realize
what you downloaded).

Why not default to not hiding file extensions?

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it's seriously underused."