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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