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compressing pictures so that they don't take up as much disk space

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jpeg is a type of file and is mostly used for storing images.

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A .jpg or .jpeg file format is used when saving images. It is the default save format when downloading an image from the internet. Other common file formats are: .PNG or .Tiff.

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JPEG is a type of file which is normally used for storing images.

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You can't open a csv file as a jpg file. A csv is a text format for letters and words and a jpg is a graphic format used for photographs, so they are not compatible. They are used for completely different things. You can convert some other graphic formats to jpg but you cannot convert text formats to jpg.


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