# Help, .art files?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 7, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648 "2004-04-07T16:30:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/1 "2004-04-07T16:30:08Z")

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Hey, I have a question about .art files…  
On my moms laptop, for some reason she can’t save a picture from the web as anything but a .art file, and after she saves them, she can’t view them, Why can’t she save them as .jpg or .gif? i thought those where the deffault file types?

any ideas? :puzzle:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/2 "2004-04-07T19:51:39Z")

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Hrmm,  
thats wierd, what OS do you have?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/3 "2004-04-07T19:53:11Z")

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Check your browser. The last I saw of mentioning of ART was in a Netscape installation. I’m not sure, it either has to do with a Mac or AOL.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/4 "2004-04-07T20:36:20Z")

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its an AOL image file.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 10:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/5 "2004-04-07T22:00:41Z")

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Yep, the .art file type was created by AOL… it’s a horrible file type to boot (coincidence?). A lot of times AOL users will end up getting images in this format.

Does she use AOL?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/6 "2004-04-08T00:45:43Z")

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yes, she uses aol, is there a way to disable it?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/7 "2004-04-08T01:27:24Z")

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Use IE or Firefox?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-art-files/106648/8 "2004-04-08T03:34:26Z")

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even using the IE browser, she still only has the option to save as .art