Help!!!

[ReFLeX]

Does anyone know how to access a file that was saved after being downloaded and opened from an IE temp folder. We just kept on saving it to that temp directory, we forgot to save it to our desktop and now it's lost in the temporary internet folder somewhere, which windows xp doesn't like to let you get at. Anyone have any tips!??!?!

Signed, Desperate

 

[a_unique_person]

just do a 'search' for the file.

 

[ReFLeX]

just do a 'search' for the file.

Tried and failed. Two old drafts showed up, not the one we worked on.

 

[ARubberChickenWithAPulley]

Did you use the advanced search options? If not, if you know the date you last edited it and/or the approximate size of the file, you can do a search for all files of a certain size modified on a certain date.

 

[ReFLeX]

Well it's on his computer so I'm trying to give him remote instructions, but.

 

[BenK]

Just to test I navigated to "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\TOHT6XCK" I picked a couple files to search for and Windows's search couldn't find them.

I could however find them with DOS using good ol' dir. If you're not familiar with DOS I can't walk you through it.

 

[Smike]

Open "C:\Documents and Settings\<username>"

Go to "Tools>Folder Options"

Select the "view" tab

Select the "show hidden files and folders" option.

Then go "Local Settings\Temp\"

 

[strathmeyer]

it's lost in the temporary internet folder somewhere, which windows xp doesn't like to let you get at.

What do you mean by this? It is not a description of the problem, and so it is impossible to come up with a solution.

 

[Chris Haynes]

Or do what I do... Click on "File", Select Save as..", and then in the file box choose another directory, like perhaps "My Documents". Also put in a file name that you will remember.

 

[Hindmost]

you can access your temp internet files by using disk tools...do a disk cleanup and then view files....it will help you get to the cache.

glenn

 

[RayG]

Start --> Search --> All files and folders

Click on More advanced options

Put a checkmark in the box next to Search hidden files and folders

Enter the name of the file in the box under All or part of the file name:

Click the Search button at the bottom.

If/when the file in question gets listed in the search result window, double-click on it to open, then File --> Save As... assign it a new location (like My Documents, as suggested earlier) and save it to that location.

RayG

 

[ReFLeX]

Yeah, I told him to show hidden files and folders, that didn't work. He said he tried an advanced search, but I don't know. The disk cleanup thing sounded like it would have worked. Anyway we just had to try to recreate the proposal from an earlier draft. I think we'll scrape by.