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Jonathan Roberts wrote: > 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 >> >> -- >> The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG >> http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list >> FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html >> >> > > if you're using KDE konquerer has a search facility which allows one to search for a word or phrase, other apps must do the same and there are command line tools also. So why not seach the cache for a unique phrase? Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html