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WEBP files are a pain to deal with.


Daniel D. Teoli Jr.

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Looks like the trend for online photo downloads is WEBP files. I just got introduced to them over the last few weeks. They don't show up at the I.A. for preview or can be used with the photo viewer on Windows. Hopefully they get up to date with the software and I.A.. If not, I won't bother archiving memes any longer.
 
I've got a huge archive of memes from various online forums. Somewhere about 5,000 memes at the I.A.. Almost all are political based one way or another. Maybe if you got a new version of Lightroom you can bulk convert to jpeg. Lightroom 5 won't do anything with them. They have online WEBP converters, but I wont use anything online. Can't risk my computer to scams.
 
You can convert them to jpeg with Paint...one by one. But I can't fool with thousands of files like that. Of course, this won't affect many of you, will it? But as an archivist, with a huge archive of material archived off the internet, it is a big pain to me.
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