Opening .bin file jpg

[chewie8008]

I am trying to figure out how to open a file I emailed to myself. I took a picture on my camera phone and emailed it to my yahoo account so that I can save it on a PC and view it in a larger format 640x480. Anyways, it worked, except all I can view is the thumbnail version of it. If I click on it to save the attachment or open the attachment it says it's a .bin file format. Although it says the image is .jpg format...

Anyways, I looked up in google/yahoo about opening .bin files and all questions/answers I saw about it were referring to .bin VIDEO files for games. This is a .jpg.

Any ideas?

[redwudz]

Well, MPG movies are just a lot of JPEGs strung together. But I haven't seen that particular problem before. Unless you created it, it shouldn't be a .bin file. Do you have 'Hide extensions for known file types' unchecked in folder options? It may just be that Windows is associating it to a .bin file format. You can always change the extension.

[thecoalman]

Have you ried renaming it with a .jpg extension?

Did a search that brough me to this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum49/721.htm

Your phone is probably appending the .bin extension to insure it gets transferred correctly.

[chewie8008]

Ok, that worked. I thought I had tried that before, simply renaming it .jpg. But I just tried it, renaming the file as I save it and it worked. I think before maybe I saved it, then tried renaming it .jpg. I'm not sure, anyways, it worked.

Thanks for the info!

[redwudz]

I just ran into a similar problem with a JPEG file I sent as an attachment with a Email. It came out the other side with a .txt extension. Changing it back to a JPEG worked, though. Probably something I did when it sent it.