how to find a picture

[nickel]

today i viewed a picture, and when i went back the picture had been removed from the site. is there any where i can look to find the picture on my computer? i have looked in "history" to no avail.

[mcs328]

temporary internet files in your Documents and Settings folder. It might be somehwere else if you specified it to do so. Search for files with a created or modified date around the time you saw the picture.

[zero2dash]

Search for it in Google if you know the URL and check the "cached page" and see if it's there.

[mcs328]

I've done this once when at work I noticed someone logged on to my computer. So I did a search to view all the files that were created when I wasn't there. *shivers* I scrolled through the files and jpgs and gifs and it was our male secretary checking his normal yahoo email and his special yahoo email account which was like studly4u69 *shivers*.

Everyone who logs on to XP, XP will create a folder on Documents and Settings with your login name and place your My Documents Folder under that and any websurfing files in the Temporary Internet Files. It's amazing the stuff you find.

[DarkFury]

Personally, I generally look in the "Temporary Internet Files" of IE.

To get there...

Tools, Internet Options, (Temporary Internet Files box) Settings, View Files.

Just sift through those to see if it is still there.

[Markel]

Personally, I generally look in the "Temporary Internet Files" of IE.
It is very unlikely that I would find anything there. I'd have to look at:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<some id>.default\Cache

[DarkFury]

It is very unlikely that I would find anything there. I'd have to look at:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<some id>.default\Cache
Why is it "unlikely"... (unless you are referring to you not using Internet Explorer)

That place is a temporary cache for many of the images and files that you come across as you surf the web with IE. I've found lots of images that I was looking for there (as long as you don't refresh the page and a new image with the same name overwrites it.)

I guess what works for one, doesn't always work for all... but still, it is a "suggestion". YMMV.

[MikeD]

He was talking about using Firefox.

[Markel]

...as you surf the web with IE.
Why would I ever want to do that? (shiver)

:D

[DarkFury]

Why would I ever want to do that? (shiver)

:D
Heh... It's not that bad. Come to the dark side. :D

Bill Gates lubs you. :D

[nickel]

thanks guys. mcs328 and DF's suggestions worked, but i couldn't find the pic amongst the others in the temp files.

fortunately someone else who viewed it had saved it. so i'm golden. :)

[Paymaster]

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