content.ie5 subfolders

[Arjay418]

Hi everyone,

Yesterday I opened a .rtf attachement that was sent to my hotmail account by a friend. It opened in MS Word, I made some changes and saved often. When I went to open the file today, Word cannot find my file. Apparently I was saving it to a subfolder under Content.IE5 (one of the folders named CHK3OKS4 or whatever). Well I have searched everywhere for this folder, and for my file, but I can't find either of them. They are not in the Content.IE5 folder anywhere.

Anyone know where this oddly-named folder may have gone to die? Is my .rtf file with it? Any chance of getting this file back?

Thank you,

--rj

 

[micker377]

Can you go back to your HotMail account and get the original file from your "deleted" folder? That way you can start over and watch exactly where it goes.

 

[Arjay418]

Ok, I finally found the oddly named folder I was looking for (in the Content.ie5 folder), but it does not contain the .rtf file I was working on. I can't figure out what was happening everytime I saved this document, and why the folder it was saving in no longer has that file?

Does the system automatically clean itself out every once in a while or do I just need to look for the .rtf some other way?

Thanks,

--rj

 

[linney]

Content.ie5 folder is part of your Temporary Internet Files, if you have recently cleaned them that would explain any missing files.

Use Internet Explorer/ Tools/ Internet Options/ Temporary Internet Files/ Settings/ View Files and see if it is still there somewhere.

In Search, make sure the Preferences are set to search Hidden and System files, and search your machine for *.rtf and see if you can locate it that way.

 

[Arjay418]

Shoot... I did all that... looks like it's gone forever... *sniff*

Thanks for your suggestions, though.

--rj

 

[linney]

Data recovery links.

Users recycle bin
thread779-744465

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

This program can read your disk sector by sector or search for text strings as they occur anywhere on the disk, it is also free.

Disk Investigator.

http://www.theabsolute.net/sware/dskinv.html