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I cannot slide images from Daz3d Website into my Windows 10 Exployer

Jan_ScrapperJan_Scrapper Posts: 749
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I cannot slide images from Daz3d Website into my Windows 10 Exployer.

I haven't tries since April because I had not downloaded any purchases and promo pics since then.

Is this a new thing and am I the only one to have a issue with it?

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,958
    edited 3:28AM

    do you mean rightclick and choose download? I am confused by slide as have never done that and didn't think one could

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  • Jan_ScrapperJan_Scrapper Posts: 749
    edited 3:43AM

    I actually have the Daz3d website scene on the left of my screen and I have Windows 10 Exployer to the right of my screen.

    I have all sorts of tabs open and can slide images from MOST websites to a Windows 10 Exployer file.

    I can still right click and download an image.  I really didn't use to have to do that frown

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,958

    well, I might have learnt something new too late yes

    or maybe my browsers don't allow it

  • MonkeMonke Posts: 52
    edited 11:08AM

    It's working fine for me in Windows 10 & 11 with Chrome, Edge and Firefox, though I never thought to save images this way, so thanks for the tip.

    It's called Drag and Drop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag_and_drop

    It depends on separate code for "starting to drag" and "dropping the item" to be written for each application. In this case the first part is in the browser and the second is in the Windows Explorer application.

    Given the current state of Microsoft updates, I'd suspect they pushed something broken, but it could also be something else (I haven't updated Windows 10 or 11 in half a year)

    One thing that changes the behaviour of Windows Explorer in how it handles dropped items is if some of the state keys are held down at the same time: Ctrl, Shift, Alt. For example, holding Alt when dropping will make it try to create a shortcut to whatever you are dragging. Sometimes Windows gets confused about the state of these keys and you can try pressing Ctrl, Shift and Alt a few times so it gets back into the right state, before dragging something again.

    If that doesn't work you can try dragging the image into something else. For example if you have Notepad open you can drag the image into Notepad and it should paste in the URL / Internet-address to where the image is stored on the web (which you can then paste into your browser address bar to visit later). If it drops into Notepad properly, then there is probably something wrong with Windows Explorer.

    If you try a different source application, eg: Chrome instead of Edge browser, and it works, then it was probably an update to Edge that broke it.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,958
    edited 11:50AM

    yes it works but saves as a webp image which do get a thumbnail for thanks to Irfanview being my default program for opening images

    an annoying format though as most other image editors don't open it

    like I said, never tried it

    DAZ Studio does drag and drop from explorer btw

    duf into scenes on things selected

    obj, FBX etc bring up dialogues

    images drag into the texture slots in shader tab (I use this heaps}

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  • MonkeMonke Posts: 52
    edited 12:53PM

    I loathe webp, but it saves a few cents for companies over millions of user requests so it's inevitable.

    If you're comfortable with such things, you can use ffmpeg and a batch file to convert them using drag and drop or command-line / terminal.

    ffmpeg is of course free and open source and you can find it on github, and it's ffmpeg -i filename.webp filename.png to convert to PNG for example.

    The most basic batch file would use something like ffmpeg -i %1 %1.png to convert (you'll have to put double quotes around the two %1 arguments if the filenames have space characters, but I don't yet know how to display that on the forum without it messing them up), and if you have that batch file on your desktop or another folder you could drag an image onto it, and it would pass the name of the image to be replaced inside those %1 values.

    I made a batch file to convert everything inside the current folder to PNG since it's so annoying.

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  • joannajoanna Posts: 2,581

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    yes it works but saves as a webp image which do get a thumbnail for thanks to Irfanview being my default program for opening images

    an annoying format though as most other image editors don't open it

    I don't know how useful it is for anyone (the files I save are mostly for reference, sharing with friends etc. so I'm not bothered with their quality), but when saving a webp file, in the dialogue window for choosing a location, I just add .jpg to the file name and it saves it as an actual jpg.

  • MonkeMonke Posts: 52
    edited 1:35PM

    joanna said:

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    yes it works but saves as a webp image which do get a thumbnail for thanks to Irfanview being my default program for opening images

    an annoying format though as most other image editors don't open it

    I don't know how useful it is for anyone (the files I save are mostly for reference, sharing with friends etc. so I'm not bothered with their quality), but when saving a webp file, in the dialogue window for choosing a location, I just add .jpg to the file name and it saves it as an actual jpg.

    Unless you're using Mac / Safari and it's doing something extra, I don't think this is actually converting the contents of the image file (I tried it in Chrome & Firefox and can see the contents of the file is still a webp -- see attached image for example of what the signature present in either file format looks like),

    However, the Windows built-in image viewer application (at least on Windows 10 & 11; as well as most new image viewers and browsers) can actually understand webp format and is looking at the contents of the file rather than the name - so that's why it seems to be converting,

    So you could just associate the webp file extension with the Windows built-in viewer and it will open files ending in .webp and display them.

    Image editors on the other hand tend to be a lot less tolerant...

     

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,958
    edited 2:53PM

    yes, rightclick save as, I change it to jpg

    cannot do drag and drop

    oh BTW can save as jpg etc in Irfanview too, I was grumbling about the extra steps mainly

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  • garrett_3dgarrett_3d Posts: 427

    Easy solution I found for webp images. Open in paint.net and re-save as jpg or png.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,810

    Browser extension (Edge, Chrome) "DownloadAs Save image as Type" ("for WebP haters") A choice of jpg or png.

    Probably something similar for Firefox...

  • Jan_ScrapperJan_Scrapper Posts: 749

    I can Drag and Drop today!!!  How is that possible???

    I swear last night I coud NOT!!!

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