iMac saving Jpegs as text file.

trevowskitrevowski
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Is there a reason why my iMac is saving pictures I get off the internet as a "text file"?



It seems that only Adobe Illustrator can open these files...

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    yamayama Posts: 427member
    Which browser are you using?



    If you do a File > Get Info on one of the JPEGs, what does it say under "Name & Extension" and "Open with"?
  • Reply 2 of 6
    trevowskitrevowski Posts: 46member
    Firefox



    I get text file when i go through those steps
  • Reply 3 of 6
    bbwibbwi Posts: 812member
    what happens when you change the file extension to jpg?
  • Reply 4 of 6
    trevowskitrevowski Posts: 46member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bbwi View Post


    what happens when you change the file extension to jpg?



    it works perfect, i get an image preview and everything.



    Before it looked like a blank paper.



    even as the text file, it would still import into iPhoto like a picture....



    I am very confused.
  • Reply 5 of 6
    yamayama Posts: 427member
    Sounds like the Firefox preferences are out of whack.



    If you check under "Applications" section of the Firefox preferences, is there an entry for JPEGs? If so, what is the associated action?



    You might also want to just trash the preferences and start over from scratch. They're under ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    MarvinMarvin Posts: 15,326moderator
    Possibly mime-type settings are wrong. For some reason OS X adds .txt onto files it doesn't recognize the mime-type for. It's actually more annoying than useful because you rarely ever get files that don't have a .txt extension but need it.
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