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Can anyone host an animated *.bmp?

GasX

GasX

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anyone?


edit:

Thanks guys - e-mailing to my webmail solved the problem.

There not a small amount of irony in that fact that I have been wanting to punch my computer trying to figure out how to post this... :roll:
 
Thanks Rossman but that didn't work... 🙁

it is labelled as a bmp, but maybe it is something else...
 
You probably just saved a GIF as BMP by mistake. If you look at the file with Notepad or a hex viewer/editor the first few characters should include "GIF."
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You probably just saved a GIF as BMP by mistake. If you look at the file with Notepad or a hex viewer/editor the first few characters should include "GIF."
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I hit save as and was only given the option of saving it as a bmp and I can not change it. :|
 
Windows Explorer change your folder options to show file extensions, then you can change the .bmp to .gif (ignoring the "what you doing f00?" warning)
 
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Windows Explorer change your folder options to show file extensions, then you can change the .bmp to .gif (ignoring the "what you doing f00?" warning)
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What is wierd is that the only place this file is animated is in the original e-mail. I have now changed the extension any number of ways, and it just becomes a picture... 😕
 
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Windows Explorer change your folder options to show file extensions, then you can change the .bmp to .gif (ignoring the "what you doing f00?" warning)
Click to expand...

What is wierd is that the only place this file is animated is in the original e-mail. I have now changed the extension any number of ways, and it just becomes a picture... 😕
Click to expand...

are you on internet explorer? i'm guessing internet explorer saved the first frame of your animated gif, and fvcked the rest. do you have another browser like firefox?
 
Originally posted by: hotchilisauce
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Windows Explorer change your folder options to show file extensions, then you can change the .bmp to .gif (ignoring the "what you doing f00?" warning)
Click to expand...

What is wierd is that the only place this file is animated is in the original e-mail. I have now changed the extension any number of ways, and it just becomes a picture... 😕
Click to expand...

are you on internet explorer? i'm guessing internet explorer saved the first frame of your animated gif, and fvcked the rest. do you have another browser like firefox?
Click to expand...
I got it in an e-mail and saved it from Outlook...
 
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: hotchilisauce
Originally posted by: Mwilding
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Windows Explorer change your folder options to show file extensions, then you can change the .bmp to .gif (ignoring the "what you doing f00?" warning)
Click to expand...

What is wierd is that the only place this file is animated is in the original e-mail. I have now changed the extension any number of ways, and it just becomes a picture... 😕
Click to expand...

are you on internet explorer? i'm guessing internet explorer saved the first frame of your animated gif, and fvcked the rest. do you have another browser like firefox?
Click to expand...
I got it in an e-mail and saved it from Outlook...
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Shakes fist at Microsoft.


It's a known bug in Internet Explorer where a gif file sometimes gets saved as a bmp. The bmp file is a real bmp file and can't be just renamed to a gif. Unfortunately, Outlook uses the Internet Explorer engine to render images and you will see the same bug when saving images.

There's gotta be a workaround. Maybe email it to a web-based email and download the image through firefox?
 
Ah, found the cause of the problem...

http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffdav/archive/2003/12/08/53607.aspx

why IE will only let you save as BMP

Sometimes you go to save an image from a web page and the only option available to you is BMP, even though the image is obviously not a BMP. People often wonder why, so I will tell you.

For whatever reason (perf, architectural simplicity, I dunno) the designers of mshtml decided to keep images around in memory as BMPs. When you go to save an image in IE, the first thing we do is check to see if the image is in the cache. If the image is not in the cache, the only representation we have of the image (without downloading it again) is mshtml's internal representation, which is a BMP. Mostly people see this when their cache is full. The easiest way to fix this is to clear your cache. Another symptom of this is nothing happens when you View->Source on a web page.
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Thanks guys - e-mailing to my webmail solved the problem.

There not a small amount of irony in that fact that I have been wanting to punch my computer trying to figure out how to post this... :roll:
 
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