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Question

Open/save

Sep 16, 2015 8:20AM PDT

When I am trying to open a file I want to see it asks "Open or Save" and if I click open it will not open. I have to save it somewhere and then try to find it because the save does not allow me to change its name. Then I have to use "open with" and choose Edge. I do not wish to save 99% of these things I just want to read them and if I do want to save I do not want to spend 10 mins looking for them.

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Needed details missing.
Sep 16, 2015 8:34AM PDT

If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem. Also please exercise your best judgment when posting in the forums--revealing personal information such as your e-mail address, telephone number, and address is not recommended.
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I've been using Windows 10 since 10/1/2014 and haven't seen anything like what you describe. Since you didn't give any inkling of what application you're talking about, what kind of computer you have, etc., nobody's going to be able to help you until you do so.

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Re: file
Sep 16, 2015 8:37AM PDT

- What (kind of) file<
- Where is it located?
- How are you trying to open it?
- What program are you using to save it?
- What is the file extension?
- Why open it with Edge?
- If you spend 10 minutes looking for them, it looks likes that save you do, is to a random folder on the hard disk. Is it really random?

I've never got these kinds of problems if I use File>Open in MS Word to read a file from my hard disk.

Kees

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re "open"
Sep 16, 2015 11:58AM PDT

File is not a Word file etc... just something a picture from facebook etc. I have always been able to just click "open" instead of save and could see them.
I never asks me for a program to save it... it just does.
I open it with Edge because that is the only thing that works.
Save is to "my Documents" or "Desktop" but because I cannot seem to give it a name it is a search to find it.
I do not usually want to save these thing I just want to open them.

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Re: open
Sep 16, 2015 12:50PM PDT

Not very clear. What you see when you do right or left click in a picture in your browser depends on the picture and how it is used on the page, the browser you are using, the add-ons you have installed and possibly the settings in your browser. I find the Image Toolbar add-on in Firefox useful.

Since you don't tell what browser you use and don't give an example link and picture to reproduce what you do and see, it's rather impossible to help.

Moreover, if i see a picture in a browser I already see it, so it doesn't make any sense to me at all to click it to see it. Why do you?

Most pictures are jpg or png or gif files. It's a just a setting in Windows what program opens it when it's on the hard disk and you doubleclick it. I don't have a browser set as default, but Windows Picture Viewer or Irfanview, and if I right click and choose Open with I can choose Paint or Paint.net or PaintShop Pro also. Although a browser can open pictures, it isn't even on the list to choose from with me. Why should I use a browser to open a picture if there are so many nice picture viewers?

Which picture viewing programs have you installed? And what are your settings in Windows for opening the common picture types?

Kees

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This sounds like what happens when...
Sep 16, 2015 8:41AM PDT

When folk upgrade from a prior Windows to 10 and change the login from a local login to Microsoft's new email login "this happens."

There are long prior discussions so I won't repeat it all here. Try a new account and make it a local login.

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Typically you have to open a file which
Sep 16, 2015 10:19AM PDT

means it puts the contents of that file in memory and on the screen example A doc in Word. You open the doc and the doc is on the screen. You can edit the DOC and it stores those changes in memory. Then when you save it saves the whole doc to the new file. The Open With means you need Word to open that doc. Just like you need MS Paint or another graphics application to ope a .BMP or JPG file.

In other words you can't update that file without the associated application. Adobe is also like this as you can open a PDF with Adobe reader and you can modify a PDF with Adobe professional.

So the type file you want to read is important. A txt file can be opened by notepad or Word but Notepad won't open a doc file.

So look at the file and look at the extension File.txt (txt is the extension) and google that extension it will tell you what application you need to open that type file. You may have to download that file or if you alread have it you need to associate that extension with the app your google search found.