Sorry.ĮDIT: After a short search, it might be as simple as having your File Explorer set to always show file extensions, which is a box that can be checked in the View tab at the top of the window. I absolutely despise the " Well it worked for me" crowd that offer no actual advice, but I've got nothing beyond that, Friend.
Everything opened it correctly, the old GIMP copy couldn't recognize it pre-conversion but could once converted, etc. Ran a test of a fresh WEBP and it converted just the same as the rest and ran it through the gambit again to make sure it wasn't a png in name only and everything came back green. I wish I had a definitive answer I could give beyond it's either some obscure preference option either one of us has set differently than the other or it's Windows just being Windows, but I'm not tech savvy enough to narrow it down beyond that. Granted, this is only a stop-gap measure that doesn't actually fix the issue of webp's being shoved down our throats, but hopefully this'll still help in some way. Never really had to write something like this out so I hopefully it's not too butchered to not be of use. The amount of time it takes to complete will depend on the folder size and number of files to convert.
By changing the file type of the second option you can just as easily convert to JPEG or another file type as needed. without quotations, type "ren *.webp *.png" When you hit Enter, this will automatically convert every Webp in that given folder into a PNG.Press Enter and this will lock the command prompt to that specific folder. You should get something along the lines of "cd C:\Users\Name\Folder". without quotations and brackets, type "cd " You can paste the file address with ctrl+V or by right clicking.Once the Prompt has opened you should see something along the lines of "C:\Users\YOUR NAME>" You can easily find it by using the Search at the bottom left of you screen on the task bar. This can be done by right clicking the folder name at the top of the window in the address bar. open the folder containing the aforementioned webp's and copy its address.The Command Prompt can mass rename files, and its rather easy to do. Now, this can be an annoyance if you've downloaded a good number of them, but there's a trick for that too. I'm on windows, so I'm not sure how this works on other OS's, but I've found that after downloading a webp against my wishes simply renaming it to a more preferred file type will auto-convert the file. Since everyone, myself included, seems to be googling "fuck webp" I thought I'd share something that I've found helps a touch. Quality was always at least the same as the WebP image even when zoomed in very close). I know there are others, but I've been using this one for several months and it has always worked fine. Lets you save WEBP images in various JPG quality (also has a right-click menu option). (EDIT - I'd just like to add that I've been using a Firefox extension called "Save webP as PNG or JPEG". Who's bright idea was it to screw with something that already worked WELL and turn it into a serious inconvenience? I tried editing the link multiple ways to make it give me the ACTUAL JPG and stop converting it to WEBP crap, but that doesn't work and only returns a 403 error. What a HUGE fucking waste of time! When I'm viewing the images in Reddit, somewhere in the link it'll show " FILENAME.jpg?auto=webp", which obviously means the image is already in JPG format but the dumbass thing is converting it to WEBP. for each and every one I download (and don't even get me started on how LONG it takes GIMP to load). So now I got a ton of saved images I have no idea what they are.Īnd now I have to open them with GIMP and export the stupid things to JPG. Come to find out later, Windows can't even open these files and therefore won't even show thumbnails while browsing through the folder. Now today I go to save some pics and suddenly for some idiotic reason it's only letting me save as WEBP. Even just a few days ago I was saving Reddit images in JPG format. A well known format that has worked very well for decades. I just want to save some images on Reddit and be able to view them on my PC.