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I've got probably a unique situation where I need to save some images that I have open in Google Chrome, however they don't exist anymore on the Internet. To make matters more complicated, it's important for my particular purpose to get the exact bytes of the image.

I would think logically, just right click and 'Save Image As' but what that does is try to download the image again from the original URL. That fails, and results in saving essentially a blank file.

I can right click and 'Copy Image', however I am not sure where I can paste that to get back the exact bytes of the image. Doing that step in two different applications then saving gives me two different files that look the same but have different contents.

The images are still open in the browser. How can I save these images exactly as they were retrieved? Or is that now impossible to do?

Edit: I thought, just unplug the cord. But no. Apparently the 'Save Image As' feature entirely doesn't work if you are disconnected from the internet.

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It would appear that while almost every other option including the cache or Free Clipboard Viewer were not helpful at all, simply dragging the images into a folder works.

I have confirmed this with another image, and the bytes seem to match. The same signature bytes are in all the images.

Thanks so much to Tetsujin for this answer.

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