In message , Paul
writes:
W. eWatson wrote:
Suppose I have a file named anyfile.jpg, and I insert it into a Word
doc. How do I find the name of the file if I need it somewhere else?
Right now I'm in that situation. I cannot find the file in Word, so
that I can find what folder it's in outside of Word.

Either there's a reference to it inside the file, or there isn't.
A search with a hex editor (or any other forensic tool you happen
to have), should tell you whether the filename is there or not.

Images can either be "copied into" a file, or the file can contain
a "link" to the image stored elsewhere on the computer. If an image
is copied into a document, there is no longer a need to keep filename
information about it. Doing so would be purely optional. And that
could be why there is no filename present inside your document right
now - the image is already a copy.

According to sticks's post in this thread, W2010 _does_ have a way of
finding out.

And I don't know of a quick way to do a "content search" on your
hard drive to find the image. There are tools that can make
thumbnail views of the images on your hard drive.
But I wasn't able to find a tool immediately, that would
compute the correlation between a sample image (copied out
of the document), and all the other images on your hard drive.
I presume such a thing exists, but I don't know good search terms
to find it.

Paul

Well, there are several duplicate image finders; I like Dup Detector
from http://www.prismaticsoftware.com/ - it can compare images of
different sizes, and you can set the percentage match. Can't be any
good, though - it's free, only 1.1M, and runs on Windows 7, Vista, XP,
NT4, 2K, ME, 95-98, and nothing like that can be any good, can it (-:
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