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A “Saved as…” file has a unknown format !
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:01 am
by Clo
Pierre
- This thread is related to
this message.
- Please, test the following, the Option
"Change the name after Save as…" being
ticked :
1. Open any small pic in “View”, let's say
fileX.BMP or
fileX.PNG
2. Ask for "Save as –>
fileX.JPG in the same directory than the original file.
3. The file-name in the title-bar is alright changed to
fileX.JPG
4. Press Ctrl+R to reopen the “displayed” file : you get an error message telling that the fileX.jpg has a unknown format (in French, in English the message is else)

I guess there are

somewhere, since :
a) The programme doesn't refresh the display automatically as soon as you have converted the format by saving it as…, although the new name is shown. To be sure of this, simply look at the tool-bar : despite a JPG file-name is shown, the JPEG … button stays
disabled.
b) Then the "Reopen" command might acts simply, and should not lead to get an error message in the case.
- The way in which XnView might find out the new path for the "saved as…" file, whether you saved it in any else dir. than the source-file one is
your "cooking"

KR
Claude
Clo
Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:31 pm
by ouistiti
2
Clo
I confirm : the displayed file and the filename in the title-bar don't match.
despite a JPG file-name is shown, the JPEG … button stays disabled.
- Right, watching the JPG button allows to know that this is not a JPG on the screen.
Then the "Reopen" command might acts simply, and should not lead to get an error message in the case.
- I agree, the program might reload / refresh the file to the saved one...
Paul
Re: A “Saved as…” file has a unknown format !
Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:55 am
by xnview
Clo wrote:- Please, test the following, the Option "Change the name after Save as…" being ticked :
1. Open any small pic in “View”, let's say filezX.BMP or fileX.PNG
2. Ask for "Save as –> fileX.JPG in the same directory than the original file.
3. The file-name in the title-bar is alright changed to fileX.JPG
4. Press Ctrl+R to reopen the “displayed” file : you get an error message telling that the fileX.jpg has an unknown format (in French, in English the message is else)
Right a bug
Re: A “Saved as…” file has a unknown format !
Posted: Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:16 pm
by helmut
xnview wrote:Clo wrote:- Please, test the following, the Option "Change the name after Save as…" being ticked :
1. Open any small pic in “View”, let's say filezX.BMP or fileX.PNG
2. Ask for "Save as –> fileX.JPG in the same directory than the original file.
3. The file-name in the title-bar is alright changed to fileX.JPG
4. Press Ctrl+R to reopen the “displayed” file : you get an error message telling that the fileX.jpg has an unknown format (in French, in English the message is else)
Right a bug
Yes, a severe one since people might loose their image (just happened to me). I've just added this one to the lits of must fixes.
Re: A “Saved as…” file has a unknown format !
Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:10 pm
by helmut
helmut wrote:Yes, a severe one since people might loose their image (just happened to me). I've just added this one to the lits of must fixes.
Loosing image data is not possible, here, but the error message was irritating.
This is solved in XnView 1.90.
-> Closed.