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Re: [LUG] Recovering documents from firefox

 

Thanks, i'm taking a look but there are a lot of randomly named files!
I did think something like this must be the case but I thought maybe
in another location other than the cache.

Is it likely to be under his home directory?

On 12/04/07, Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > Ok, this is going to sound a strange request but...my brother
> > downloaded a piece of work but used "open with" rather than save to
> > disk and then just clicked "save" rather than "save as" presumably
> > just writing over the tmp file from the browser. Is there anyway I can
> > get this back?!
> >
> > Yours,
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> 'Open With', AFAIK downloads a copy of the file to the browser's cache
> and *then* opens the local copy with the nominated program.  If you
> think about it, it would have to work this way otherwise the original
> file could have hundreds of copies of itself open at once and bring the
> server to its' knees.  The copy may well still be in the cache, assuming
> you don't empty it when closing Firefox.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Julian
>
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