Save Picture As/BMP problem

[Cynth]

Hello and thank you!

I am experiencing the following bizarre behavior in Outlook (I am using
IE6 and XP Profesional)

If I receive an email that has an image in the body...and I want to save
the image on my harddrive.....I right click on the image and select
"Save Picture As".

Here's the problem: in many cases, when saving, the "Save As" dialog
wants to save the image as a bitmap (BMP) and will not allow me to save
it as anything else - though I KNOW the image is either a GIF or a JPG.

I ran test after test having a friend send me both GIF and JPG's and in
each case....the Save As would only save it as a BMP (my friend was
using Outlook as well...and sent the images using Insert-->Image--> From
File).

Then, as another test, I went back to some old emails and it worked
.....I was able to save an image as the file type that it truely was.

I searched Outlook help for Save Picture As, Save As, Bitmap, etc...to
no avail.

Any thoughts?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Here's the problem: in many cases, when saving, the "Save As" dialog
wants to save the image as a bitmap (BMP) and will not allow me to
save it as anything else - though I KNOW the image is either a GIF or
a JPG.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm

 

[mic]

a macro does not seem to be the solution, i vethe same problem and read
somewhere that the problem was a "too big" internet temp folder
More ideas ?

Mr

 

[Brian Tillman]

a macro does not seem to be the solution, i vethe same problem and read
somewhere that the problem was a "too big" internet temp folder

For the issue put forward by the original poster, a "too big internet temp
folder" isn't germane.