A downloaded image has changed all my file extensions

[deborah13579]

I downloaded an image through Google images. This image has changed all of my image file extensions to QuickTime, and all my little Paint Shop Pro icons are now QuickTime icons. If I use the Paint Shop Pro program to make a new image, it says it is being saved as .gif, but QuickTime icons show when it is saved, and I cannot open any of my images through any other image creator/editor program.

Can you please tell me what I can do to fix this, or what can be done to get rid of the problem. Also, is there anywhere to post info concerning this site to warn others, for it was a deliberate snare.

Am also a greenie/newbie to anything code. Thankyou.

[loserboy]

hey there.
not sure if i completely understand what you are saying, but i can tell you if you want to change which program is defaulted to open files you can right click on a file go to properties then click the "Open With" tab, then choose a program from the list. sometimes the program you want isnt on there and i believe you can add it if you know the path.
hope this helps

[deborah13579]

Hi. Thankyou for your reply. I had already tried that, so as to list All Files (*), but I keep getting an error report of invalid file extension.

What happened was this. I was looking for an image. I went to Google images, found one I liked and clicked the image. You get the page where the image was located, and an option to see the image full scale. I chose full scale, found it to be exactly what I wanted and so I clicked on 'save image as', and saved it to my computer.

I then went to open the image through the download popup on my computer that always asks to open or remove, and so I clicked open, and it wouldn't open. The so-called jpeg image was downloaded as some sort of QuickTime file, according to the icon that appears with the download.

I went to my images file itself where I saved the image, and I found that all the icons that tell you whether the image is a gif. or a psp image are now all little Quicktime icons.

If I open these images through Corel Paint Shop Pro, I can open the images, and close them, but . . . if I create a new image, it is saved with this QuickTime thing going on.

I have a freeware graphics program, so I tried to open these images through this program, (Serif Draw). I use their browser to locate my image, I make sure the selection is set to "All files (*)' and then I get the message of invalid file extension.

I had no problems with my image files or programs until I downloaded this image. It seems to me that somehow the image 'appears' to be being saved as .gif or .jpeg or whatever, but is somehow being twisted in fact, and is being saved as something else altogether (??!?).

Site is called ExtremeTech.com, not favourable at all to the image that they used that I downloaded.

Hope this is a better picture of my problem. Made worse because so far all I can do is open files on Corel Draw which is only a trial version that I am using. Will expire in a day or so and cannot purchase as yet, and now all my previous years of images are kaput!

[loserboy]

i got your email, glad its mostly working now. I have no idea how it happened, ive never had that problem. on a side note you can change the icon for any file pretty easy, just right-click said file>properties and under the basic tab just click the icon and it will let you browse for a different icon i think any png/svg will work..... only i can't remember if that works system-wide or just on that one file, i know theres a way to make it system-wide if thats not it, but i'd have to play with it a bit.


also i'm a bit confused, all those progs sound like windows only software, are you running WINE or something?