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During my granddaughters wedding, over 600 pictures were professionally taken and are all in GIFF format. She sent them to my wife who in turn sent them to my computer. When received from my wife, they came through in JPEG format. When I want to save any of them, they return to GIFF format and windows 8.1 won't display them. I haven't tried anything with them on the Linux machine, but will later. Any clues how I can get W-8.1 to display the GIFF files? I tried to open them in Paint and save them in JPEG, but Paint won't display them either. PJ
 
Not familiar with GIFF. Could it be GIF instead? It would be unusual for photos to be in GIF format as IIRC it is limited colors. JPG (or JPEG) is much more common although it is lossey. Anyway, back to your problem. My best guess is the files are not in the format that matches the extension. That is JPEG file named as GIF or vice-versa. It seems most programs just look at the extension and only try that format. If it don't match they just fail. You might try changing the name and see if Paint will open them. Meanwhile Doc or someone with more knowledge should come along soon.
 
Are you sure you don't mean TIFF? Much more likely a format for digital photos than GIF.
 
Yes, I might have thought TIFF which has a very high density (and the files are huge). The times when Windows would open a file in an unexpected way, I merely forced the file to be opened by my preferred program (and old version of PaintShopPro7) and saved it in the form I want it.
 
If your Linux distro came with The GIMP warez, it should open them, though a ".GIFF" extension doesn't sound right to me, either. That's an older bitmap file extension CompuServe used. I can't imagine any pro photog would reduce their work to a .gif bitmap file.

Try opening with GIMP.
 
Pretty funny just sitting here chuckling at the file extensions being bantered about.
i work at GE. and people there will three letter anything they can get there hands on its so bad that there a web page on our intranet with a decoder. LOL! :welcoming:
 
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