IE Problem with Saving JPG Files

[GT98]

Whats the fix to IE wanting to save JPG files as BMP?


Thanks

[Dr Mordrid]

There are a couple of fixes for this;

1. Go to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced and scroll to the Security settings. Now check the box next to "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" and click Apply. In most cases this is enough.

2. Go to Tools/Internet Options/General/Temporary Internet Files. The loss of filetype saving is sometimes due to the temporary files HDD cache filling up. The fix is to either delete the existing temporary files or go into the Settings menu and allocate more disk space to the cache.

Dr. Mordrid

[Guru]

If it just does it whit a specific file reboting the computer often solvs it!

[az]

Oh, what a great browser

AZ

[dbdg]

Happens to me a lot and it is the cache, generally when mine gets to about a GB.

[Jupp]

It does reproduceable happen with IE 6,
if you use an URL with embedded username and password, like http://user:secret@somweirdwebsite.com/.

[Gurm]

Now what do you do if IE insists on saving JPG's as .JPE instead?

Haven't figured out HOW to fix that one.

Gpar_

[Spire]

Originally posted by Gurm
Now what do you do if IE insists on saving JPG's as .JPE instead?

Haven't figured out HOW to fix that one.

Navigate to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/jpeg registry key, and set the Extension value to .jpg.

I think you may have to restart Windows (or at least log off and back on again) for this to take effect.

As for the original question, it does have something to do with the cache being full, as Dr Mordrid says. Simply force-refreshing the page containing the image (by pressing CTRL+F5) usually does the trick for me.