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Hi! I'm having a wierd problem. When I save moving gifs, it shows up as....like a subdocument, with several seperate images.

I've reuploaded them, so I know I have downloaded the moving gif.....but I cannot see it moving when saved to my computer.

Help? Any idea's?

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The symptom described by — a saved GIF showing up as a “subdocument” or a folder of separate images — is usually not a broken GIF. Two common causes explain it better than “viewer can’t play GIFs”: the web page (not the image) was saved, or the animated media was delivered as a non‑GIF resource (video or sprite). and were right that some Windows viewers don’t animate, and ’s suggestion of a dedicated image tool is helpful, but the save method is the key thing to check first.

How to confirm what was saved: check the file name and extension. A saved page often creates an .htm/.html file plus a “filename_files” folder with many images (this matches the “separate images” report). A real animated file will be a single file ending in .gif and have a nontrivial size. If the file is .mp4/.webm/.gifv, it’s video masquerading as a GIF and won’t behave like an animated GIF in image viewers.

Practical fixes and verification steps: open the image URL itself in a browser tab (right‑click the animation -> “Open image in new tab” or find the direct media URL via developer tools) and then save that file. Try the saved file in a modern browser (Chrome or Firefox) or an editor/viewer that shows animation frames (GIMP, IrfanView). If none show animation, the file is not an animated GIF or the download was incomplete/corrupt.

Quick checklist: 1) Confirm the saved item is a single .gif file, not an .htm plus folder. 2) If right‑click save isn’t available, extract the direct media URL from developer tools. 3) If the host serves video (gifv/mp4/webm), use the site’s download link or save the direct media URL. These steps resolve the vast majority of “GIF saved as separate images” cases.

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Member Avatar for kunai_master

it depends what you are opening the file with, the default windows picture viewer does not play .Gif, try right clicking the image and selecting "open with" and from that menue choose internet explorer.

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What are you opening it with?
Quicktime, Internet Explorer and many more can play .gif's.
Try using Internet Explorer, if that does not work...then:

After downloading GIF viwer install it and perform following steps to make GIF viewer to set as default to open GIF files.

1.Right click on your Gif image.

2.click on properties.

3.In front of open with , there is a "change" button, click on it.

4.Browse it where your GIF viewer is installed, generally it is in C:/programfiles(x86)/GIF viewer/GIFviewer.exe

5.click on open and then ok. Then click on apply and again ok.

Have fun! :)

Member Avatar for eltonpiko

simply open it i your internet browser and you shall see the moving gif.normally gif files are made up of series of images

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