can't rename jpeg when saving?

[Denvers Dawgs]

I recently tried to save a jpeg from a web page. when I selected save as and then renamed it, the output file was an unreadable one....I went back to the pic and saved it as the name it was given and it saved fine...this happens everytime....Change name nonreadable, save name readable....how can i fix this problem....I just want to be able to change the name the sametime im saving it instead of going to the folder and doing it??

[DereX888]

If you SAW IT on your computer - it is there

some websites intentionally use very long file names with few dots to confuse your system (amazon? or imdb? one of them) i remember once i saved a cover from one of those sites and the saved file name was A0123456789876756547ABCDEFG.123 or something like that. Just rename manually this .123 extension to .JPG or .GIF or whatever format this picture is originally.

AFAIR it happens only with IE5+ and JPEGs and GIFs (but Im not sure)?
Saving the pic as bitmap (in IE) usually saved them correctly - as bitmap.

[Denvers Dawgs]

don't think that is the problem, the website had it just named as image32.jpeg....

If you SAW IT on your computer - it is there

yes it is there but it shows an icon of a right corner folded page with a program menu in the middle. It just says file next to the name, not the jpeg ext.

when I click on it a pop up appears that says:

Windows cannot oen this file
File:dvdrtoshiba

To open this file, Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows can go online to look it up automatically, or you can select for a list of programs on your computer. What do you want to do.

I saved it as a jpeg, but when i rename it while saving this happens......

[DereX888]

I think lost ya.
post some link here to any pic you have prob with.

BTW - It doesnt matter under what 'icon' the file is represented
Usually it just shows icons from the associated program that opens up such file, but you can change it yourself anytime, or some programs that like to 'steal' file association may replace it with its own too.

Anyway - if the file .JPG (.JPE, .JPEG, and few others) are associated with i.e. Internet Explorer on your system - they should open with it no prob, unless you 'lost' the association somehow (i.e. you had OFfice suite with its photoeditor and when you removed it - it could have not reassociate it back to default setting?). Or the file is - as I told ya earlier - named as whateverlongfilename.ABC.JPEG and your system saves it as .ABC (omitting the last part with .JPEG). Thats what I was talking about earlier when I mention it may happen with IE5+ when saving pics from some websites that try to fool IE save in this stupid simple way. I dont know how to explain better, and I think I lost ya anyway lol

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Have you tried right click and copy. Paste to paint or your favorite
paint software and then save to disk ??

[Denvers Dawgs]

No I haven't tried the paste to paint...more steps I'd rather not have to do....I don't understand it. I used to be able to just choose save as, and rename when I was saving and everything worked fine....now it won't read the damn file when I rename any jpeg? Thanks for your help....if you think of anything else, I'll try it. Thanx again for your help so far....