It is saved as a single long hexidecimal string. That is what the "encrypting" is, converting plain text to hexi. If I recall correctly from the last time we discussed it the reason Snowflake does this is to make it more difficult to steal the photographs on her site.
Even if you don't ultimately want to stop encoding the files in hexidecimal (though I'd still advocate that you should and find other ways to control the photos) and the changes you've made are important then you can always just upload the unencoded files from FP and have them online that way until you can get the other problem fixed.
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