Just seen the Vineo for April (thank you, excellent) and realised why something I queried on the forum the other day had happened. I saved one of my listing images to my desktop so I could load it to the forum post but it wouldn’t let me load it as the forum won’t accept the file format it downloaded (.jfif) and I had to convert to .jpg to get it onto here.
What I hadn’t spotted was the difference in image file name which has changed from something meaningless, just a code to a meaningful descriptive name for the image. Thank you, that is brilliant.
My own filing system uses meaningful names for everything (description, mmyy made, price, for sale / sold status) so it is good to see the Folksy images now sensibly named too. I understand this will help in Google / organic searches.
So it is now more important than ever to give good descriptive titles to listings as those titles now appear in image searches. Thank you Folksy.
My new orchid is now 7268376-Orchid-Stained-Glass-Suncatcher-Rose-Red-Framed–0.jfif instead of a meaningless string of characters. I was interested to see that this applies not just to current listings but to all of them, even those long expired. Think this has to help with making our images move findable.
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Could someone try saving one of their listing images to see what type of file it saves. Earlier today on my Windows 10 PC it saved as .jfif but now I’m on my Windows 7 laptop and just saved one (a collage I wanted to load to my Facebook post for the new listing) and realised it saved as a .Jpg so wondering if
a. Doug has changed something today
or
b. Windows 10 saves as .jfif and Windows 7 as .jpg
Signed
Puzzled 
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Ps. Tried in my android phone. Even odder. .jpeg on here !
Windows 10 here and it saved a .jpeg
Weird. Tried on the pc again, windows 10, and got another .jfif. !!
Mine’s saving on Windows 10 (laptop) as a JPEG x
Which browser, Joy? does that make a difference? I’m right-clicking on any of your images and choosing Save As, and get the windows save screen with the Jpg option.
I always use Google Chrome on both laptop and pc.
Just googled and will fix my registry on the pc when I get home to always save as .jpg instead of the .jfif. Just Microsoft being too clever for itself I think.
Hope my .jfif problem is not detracting from my intended message with this post… To make sure you use good searchable titles for your listings . …
ooo - you are brave enough to fix your registry… I’m always too scared to touch that!
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You can easily back it up first. I always do but never had to restore from it.
Easy Peasy Nice and Easy Lemon Squeezy…
In case anyone else is having the same problem
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Open Regedit - Go to Start Menu, type Regedit - Click yes on notification window to run it.
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Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
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Navigate to MIME
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Navigate to DATABASE
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Navigate to Content Type
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Click on image/jpeg
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Double click on “extension” and change the value from jfif to jpg
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Close regedit
SORTED
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Thanks Joy. I do this with my website SEO, which also allows me to add keywords/tags and a description to each image. It would be a nightmare to do each image but is helpful with SEO. I’ll have to make time to watch the Vimeo today
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