Windows 10: I have precious old photos in .mix format from Picture It discontinued that I desperately...

I have precious old photos in .mix format from Picture It discontinued that I desperately need to open, which program will do it please?

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Picture formats Windows Photo viewer will display in Windows 10.

Hello James,



Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We will assist you in resolving the issue.

Before assisting further, I would like to ask you few questions:

• 
  Do you mean Photo app?
  
• 
  Are you not able to open a picture format type in the Photo app?
  

Photo app supports all picture format types to display on the screen. It will not open the photos whose picture format is not set to open in Photo app viewer. Set the Photo app viewer as the default picture viewer to the open pictures in that particular
app.



To set Photo app as the default photo viewer, follow the steps below:

• 
  Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Settings and select the top most search result.
  
• 
  Click on System option from the window and select
  Default apps from the left side panel of the screen.
  
• 
  Under Choose Default apps, click on
  Photo viewer option and choseWindows
  Photo app.
  
• 
  Close the window and check if the changes are effective.
  

You can also set different photo viewer applications for different picture formats by following the steps below:

• 
  Press Windows logo key on the keyboard, type Settings
  and select the top most search result.
  
• 
  Click on System option from the window and select
  Default apps from the left side panel of the screen.
  
• 
  Scroll down the page and click on Choose default apps by file type.
  
• 
  Click on the file type from the window and select an application to make it as default from
  Choose an App window.
  
• 
  Close the window and check if you are able to open different file formats in the set defaults viewer applications.
  

Write back to us with the answers to the above questions and the status of the issue on the same post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.



Thank you.

 

Convert .mix photos to any other type of picture file.

I have a some old .mix photo files that I would like to convert to an other type of format, such as .jpg, .png, .tif etc

 

Old picture files

Hi Carolyn,

Based on the description you provided, we need to determine why all your old pictures disappeared after replacing your printer to a new one. With that said, kindly answer the following questions:

• What steps have you tried so far to recover your old pictures?
• Did you use an application to save your scanned photos from your previous printer?
• Have you tried searching for the folder via Cortana?