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Originally Posted by Bob_R

Can I change Always Convert Images from Yes to No after installation (installed over a year ago).

The animated gifs are saved to jpg and animation is lost.

Yes, any time.

However, converting images has several benefits, one of which is the removal of eventual malware. Since some file formats allow to hide scripts and thus run arbitrary code on the client browsers before viewing an image, the file conversion makes sure that such scripts are never executed, because such images are entirely removed.

Leaving the file format intact, you eventually do copy also malicious code, depending on how those images are crafted.

If you operate on a large site with a lot of users, you run better off with converting all images, because this way your site never falls into the category where it gets banned by spiders, namingly Google.