Why is Chrome Savings Stuff as .bin

StevenXL · 02-05-2014, 07:31 PM

Hi guys - I've noticed that Chrome keeps saving things as .bin files.

Can I change this behavior? Why is it doing this? It caused a lot of headaches before I figured out what was going on.

Thanks!

frankbell · 02-05-2014, 10:02 PM

What kinds of things?

StevenXL · 02-05-2014, 11:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

What kinds of things?

Almost everything.

For example, if I go to this URL:

https://manual.cs50.net/appliance/19/player/

and try to save the *.ova file, the extension turns into .bin. That is just one of many examples.

burgler09 · 02-05-2014, 11:17 PM

Set google chrome to ask which folder to save it to, then when it is saving there's a check box that says something about changing the extension of unknown file type. I'm not sure the exact wording, but it'll fix it and it's the only check box there :P

jtsn · 02-06-2014, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StevenXL

Almost everything. For example, if I go to this URL: https://manual.cs50.net/appliance/19/player/ and try to save the *.ova file, the extension turns into .bin. That is just one of many examples.

Chrome saves this as .bin, because the server misdeclares the MIME type as application/octet-stream for what should actually be application/x-virtualbox-ova.

Chrome's behavior is technically correct, the web server providing the file is just misconfigured.

StevenXL · 02-06-2014, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by burgler09

Set google chrome to ask which folder to save it to, then when it is saving there's a check box that says something about changing the extension of unknown file type. I'm not sure the exact wording, but it'll fix it and it's the only check box there :P

Thank you - that was exactly what I needed to fix the problem.