Dragging images to the desktop copies image as .png instead of .jpg

I have nearly identical computers at home and work. Both are XP Pro, with Firefox 3.6.
When I drag an image out of a web page, onto the desktop, my home computer saves/names the image as a .jpg, but my work computer saves/names the image as .png.
I want my work computer to save/name the image as .jpg. How do I change it?

Do you get a real PNG file or a JPG file that has a .png file extension?

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How is your external drive formatted? Use Disk Utility to check the volume format. If it is NTFS, you will need to reformat the HDD as exFAT in order to retain universal compatibility (RW to it on both Mac and Windows).

Is there any way to drag photos from the desktop onto aperture like IPhoto?

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I could be mistaken, but I don't believe you are correct.
You need Previews enabled to drag images OUT of AP.
However, to drag images IN, I do not believe you need Previews enabled. Just drop them in the Project List Pane. I'm pretty sure this has worked since 1.0 - long before Previews.
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Try this - worked for me.
Double click on the desktop email so that it opens in Mail.
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Then launch iPhoto and try again.
OT

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Brilliant, thank you! Forums win again!
If it had a choice to include subfolders, that would be even better, but this will work for me.
Thanks again!
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sorry for my post. I was able to solve it. I made iPhoto find the library again. I put my whole iPhoto library on the desktop and then I opened iPhoto and made it find the library on the desktop. And then it worked! And after that I put my iPhoto library back to where it should be, opened up iPhoto and made it find the library again. And now I can drag pictures to the desktop again
hmm... I wrote kinda crappy... well I hope you understand anyway...

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Now, recently I was trying to drag and drop some picture to my desktop and I found out that it started to save the image as bitmap instead of jpg.
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How can I drag a photo to the desktop

How can I drag a photo to the desktop

Assuming you are using iPhoto....
You want to select the event that has the photo in it then click once on the photo so it is highlighted with a yellow ring around it and then click and drag it to the desktop.
If you are finding it difficult to move the file that way you can select the picture in iPhoto and select
File > Export (Command + Shift + E) and select how you want to export it (format) and where you want to put it .
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Thanks for your response.
I did know about that method of saving messages. It seems to be long and tedious especially if you want to drag(save) serveral messages at the same time.
Seems with Apple always touting ease of use, Entourage has the one up on Mail in this case.
Felipe
PBG4 12, 2 iMacs G5 (20 & 17) Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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A Title is not a Filename.
In iPhoto you add a title to the photo, this does not rename the file.
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Hi,
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No ...
Under "Ownership & Permission" is says "You can - Read & Write", so that's not the issue.
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Dragging images to the desktop copies image as .png instead of .jpg

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