Change File Type of existing file?

[Trenton]

How do I change the type (eg. .jpg) to another type
(eg. .mp3). I have tried renaming it in explorer menu but
no success.

[Taurarian]

Changing the file type extension from say .jpg to .mp3 doesn't make a bitmap
file a audio file.

"Trenton" > wrote in message
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> How do I change the type (eg. .jpg) to another type
> (eg. .mp3). I have tried renaming it in explorer menu but
> no success.

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Trenton,

You are just renaming the file extension. The filetypes cannot be converted
by any means. mp3 is audio format. jpg is image.

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"Trenton" > wrote in message
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How do I change the type (eg. .jpg) to another type
(eg. .mp3). I have tried renaming it in explorer menu but
no success.

[Darrell]

Changing the suffix of a file only changes that part of the filename. It
doesn't change the file type. Changing a .stuff.jpg file's name to
stuff.bmp DOESN'T make it a bmp type file. It just screws it up. Open your
..jpg file using Paint. Click on File.... Save As.... at the bottom there
will be one area to name the saved file and another just below that says
File Type. Right click the triangle to the right of that window and choose
BMP. Now it will save it as a bmp file in fact as well as name.

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"Trenton" > wrote in message
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> How do I change the type (eg. .jpg) to another type
> (eg. .mp3). I have tried renaming it in explorer menu but
> no success.

[Ken Blake]

In ,
Trenton > typed:

> How do I change the type (eg. .jpg) to another type
> (eg. .mp3). I have tried renaming it in explorer menu but
> no success.


File types differ, not just in their names, but in what they
contain and how they are formatted. Changing a file's name from
..jpg to .mp3 doesn't make it an mp3 file any more than calling a
camel an elephant makes it an elephant.

To convert a file from one type to another, first it has to
contain the type of data that is implied by the new file type
(for example, you can't change a spreadsheet file to a sound
file, but you can convert from one type of graphics file to
another); second, the conversion has to be done with a program
capable of doing the conversion.

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