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Old January 2nd 18, 01:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Mis naming a file

Seymore4Head wrote:
I used search to find files in more than one drive. I meant to add an
extra word to the filename. I must have mis typed or deleted part of
the filename. When I pressed enter, the file disappeared from the
search. Since I misnamed it, is there a way to find the file?

I tried using the same drives in the search and sort by date, but
nothing comes up with today's date.


NTFS has the USN Journal. FAT32 doesn't have anything like that.

A partition can have the Journal recently deleted.

And the Journal (apparently) can be turned off, because
I have some partitions where the tools swear one isn't
present on NTFS.

In any case, here is an example of someone inspecting it.

https://tzworks.net/prototype_page.php?proto_id=5

The picture at the bottom of the page, the top entry says:

filename type change
V01tmp.log file_new_name;file_closed

There is also a datestamp.

I've not used the Journal for anything, so at the moment it's
merely amusing.

Paul
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