saving photos from the web

Sometimes when I rightclick on an image on the net and choose "save as" it works fine. I get a thumbnail in the "My Photos" folder that I can view and edit. Other times, often on the same site or photos, when I try to save a photo I get a thumbnail in "My Photo" with "Jpeg" on it but when I open the file it says there is no preview available and I can't see or edit it. I've noticed that when it works, when I rightclick the photo has a "Jpeg" file option showing. When it doesn't work it usually has an option of "art" or "bitmap ", but chosing either of these does not give me a usable file. As I said this happens on the same site and even the same pictures at different times. I have ACDSee also and it can't read the file either. A message says that windows can't open the file cause it can't deterrmine what program created it. Anybody got an answer? Thanks in advance !

 

The .art files are an AOL thing and they use a really strange compression routine on them. Lots of picture editors can't deal with them. Not sure what the problem is with .bmp files though (other than their huge size).

Suggestion - try downloading and using Irfanview. It is free and is a wonderful picture viewer. Smart enough to let you know if the extension on a file is wrong and change it if you want.

In the Irfanview Options~Set File Associations are lots of options for which file types you want it to deal with and such.