* media files saved as .gfif

[phende]

Recently. when I download a file from Ancestry, although it says it is a jpeg, it saves it as xxx.gfif. This apparently is a standard format but FH does not recognise it. I can download the file, open it in Infranview and re-save it as .jpeg but this is a pain. Is there a way I can get Ancestry to save files directly as .jpeg or get FH to recognise .gfif?

[tatewise]

I have never heard of .gfif files and a Google search provides no answers.

Maybe they are .gif files that have been misnamed and are supported by FH.

[neil40]

This is puzzling, I can't find information on .gfif files - do you mean .gif?
.gif is a common graphics files, often an animated graphic.
There is a .jfif file format, a compressed jpeg file.

I have tried to emulate what you are seeing, but Ancestry downloads .jpg files for me.

What operating system do you have?

[Mark1834]

It could be a typo for jfif, a simplified version of the jpeg format.

[jelv]

Apparently Genetic-Based Fuzzy Image Filter

I found this:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio ... Processing

Edit: I searched gfif image

[tatewise]

John, that is referring to a filter process not a file type.

[jelv]

That puzzled me too. I wonder if they are standard jpeg images that have been processed using that filter process?

[jelv]

@phende

Rather than opening and saving the file in IrfanView, have you tried just renaming the file to change the file extension?

[phende]

Apologies. They come down as .jfif files and FH does not like it. I have not tried changing the extension as I don’t normally display them but re-saving directly without an extension as jpeg does not work because that does not change the name.
I am on the latest update of Win11 and have felt for some time that I have less control of the machine than I used to.
Actually, I am not sure what package is being used to display these downloads though I have set Irfanview as the default.

[mjashby]

This should help: https://www.howtogeek.com/844435/how-to ... ws-or-mac/

Short answer - Use either the Windows 'Paint' or 'Photos' app to load the files and save to .jpg format for use in FH.

Mervyn

[phende]

With more research I have found that Edge is the culprit, saving graphics files in jfif format by default. You can apparently do a registry edit to get it to use jpeg but I have not tried that yet.

[Woodg]

I don't think that is 'normal'. I'm using Edge on multiple machines and none of them save graphics files as jfif. Maybe an app has changed settings.

[jelv]

How are you saving the files from Ancestry? It sounds like you might be saving the displayed image rather than using the Ancestry download option.

[phende]

I am certain this flaw has been introduced by one of the recent updates to Edge. The fix has been on various discussion groups for at least 3 years when Microsoft were claiming it was probably 3rd party software that caused the problem. Very unlikely in my case with my very narrow field of interests.
The fix is:
Open regedit
Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\image/jpeg
In the panel on the right, look at "Extension". Mine had the entry .jfif
Double click on Extension and change it to .jpg
Exit regedit. Job done - for how long I don't know, but images are now downloading as previously.