Right click, "save picture as" problem

[will6988]

Every now and then, when I'm saving pics from a website, I get a frustrating problem. After I right click and select "save picture as", sometimes IE will only let me save as a bitmap file. Sometimes if I close the browser and go back in again, it will work. I can't figure out what triggers it to happen.

Anyone experienced this?

[inDcent]

yeah... i just save as a bitmap file and then change the whole batch convert the whole damn file with faststone image viewer... works like a charm and only takes a few minutes... only thing that pisses me off about the bmp files is that you have to give it a new name... yesterday i downloaded 1800 pics that way.. took me damn near the whole day... jpg is so much nicer...

[Tony]

Try clearing your temporary Internet cache.

[graham]

I have the same problem in IE, that's why I use firefox.

[will6988]

yeah... i just save as a bitmap file and then change the whole batch convert the whole damn file with faststone image viewer... works like a charm and only takes a few minutes... only thing that pisses me off about the bmp files is that you have to give it a new name... yesterday i downloaded 1800 pics that way.. took me damn near the whole day... jpg is so much nicer...
Sounds like a lot of work :(




Try clearing your temporary Internet cache.
Tried that in the past. It doesn't seem to fix it.




I have the same problem in IE, that's why I use firefox.
never tried FF. I might have to take a look.

[Swede20]

I've just started to use Firefox, and it seems to work fine, though at some pages, I can't rightclick and save target as, atleast not when it's a link for a movie. :D lol

[Blackhawk_996]

More and more sites are incorperating a cgi script that prevents right clicking.... Theres a good chance it's not just IE thats giving you problems.

[Montolio]

i would recommend you to change from IE to Opera or FF. I personally use Opera and everthing is fine, but FF is good, too. Maybe this little guy helps you: http://tinypic.com/fk713o.gif

[longhairedg79]

monty that smiley is fuckin funny

btw if you use fire fox look into the flashgot plugin

[graham]

i would recommend you to change from IE to Opera or FF. I personally use Opera and everthing is fine, but FF is good, too. Maybe this little guy helps you: http://tinypic.com/fk713o.gif
Haha that is fucking great! That's probably the coolest smiley I have seen

[mcspikey5]

ive not used ie for 3 yrs ive been useing avant browser and never had any problems

[raphael]

More and more sites are incorperating a cgi script that prevents right clicking.... Theres a good chance it's not just IE thats giving you problems.

You are correct, a few model sites I've been on have that bullshit script. And I thought it was IE at first then I took a look at the source and I found the problem.

And in regard to FF, or O being the best browser... I just checked a few of my websites stats and at least 75% of the visitors to all of my sites use IE. :D

[wanker125]

More and more sites are incorperating a cgi script that prevents right clicking.... Theres a good chance it's not just IE thats giving you problems.

how does this work??
when you view a picture, it has been downloaded to your computer. can you pull the pic from the browsers cache?

[Doobie]

In cases that use the script that prevents right-clicking, you can usually just check the source code for the image url and then copy/paste it into your download manager.

[bada bing]

have never had any probs, but am with doobs on this, if i ever have any probs with files on a website i always look through the source to find the urls

[garv]

in internet explorer for the bitmap problem.

Tools --> Internet Options --> click the Delete Files --> click the check box Delete all offline content --> press OK.

then restart IE.