I found this on WindoesBBS.

"ise2006--I think a program such as SystemSecuritySuite does a better job of
deleting the Content.IE5 files including the contents of the index.dat file
in that folder.
http://www.igorshpak.net/
Check "Temporary" under both My Computer and Internet Explorer columns.

Specific to just seeing the Content.IE5 files, I have the same problem. If
you type C:\Doc..and Setting\user's name\Local Setting\Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5 into the Windows Address line and click Enter, you will get
there. I created a shortcut just for this purpose.
There are other ways, but I find this simplest.
"

This works and youcan see and modify the contents of Content.IE5 and all of
the sub-folders.

Good luck!

"Martin Gerhold" wrote:

No admin rights here - I am on a work PC with very restricted access! I shall
try what you suggest at home... not that I have an problem, I was just trying to
help, and be ready for when a colleague might have the same issue.

Lets hope Anne gets lucky!

"Jean Rosenfeld" wrote in message
...
Are you logged in with admin rights? If you right click on the temporary
internet files folder (in the Explorer window got through disk cleanup as
suggested in my previous post) properties, security tab, does your logged in
account have full control? if not see if giving yourself full control there
the OLK folders show up after a refresh of the explorer window.

However, your method also works fine to access at least one of the OLK folders
(I have two at present, not sure why)

"Martin Gerhold" wrote in message
...
Jean's solution doesn't work for me - the OLK folders are still invisible!

To repeat my reply in windows.xpgeneral:

A brief experiment on my setup (Outlook, XP-Pro)
reveals that Outlook saves files to the folder "C:\Documents and
Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK771\". However,
Explorer shows no such folder. Agent Ransack (google it) can see files in
this
'magic' folder that Explorer can't. Even without Agent Ransack, you may be
able
to access the contents: try opening another word doc from within an email,
then
go to FileSave As, and save with a recognisable simple name in the offered
folder. Then go to FileOpen, and you should see that saved file, and any
other
Word files in the 'magic' folder - your 'lost' one may be there.

HTH, Martin

"Jean Rosenfeld" wrote in message
...
I use Microsoft Outlook 2002 on XP pro SP3. Don't know if this applies to
other mail readers or other versions of Windows:

If I open an attachment (say a .doc) file it gets placed, not in Content.IE5
or its subfolders (those contain Internet Explorer downloads) but in

C:\Documents and Settings\my user name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files\OLK101 (the numbers after OLK may vary).

If you can find that folder and you have not cleared your caches, your
edited file might be there. Here's one way:

Easiest way I've found to see the full contents of the temporary internet
files folder is to open diskcleanup (but don't let it clean up). Highlight
temporary intenet files, click view files. That opens Explorer at the
Contents.IE5 folder in single pane view. click the folder icon in the
toolbar to show Explorer in double pane view and you will see all those OLK
folders in the left pane and be able to examine their contents.
For convenience I right dragged the icon from Explorer's toolbar to create a
shortcut on my desktop.

"Anne" wrote in message
...
Yeh thanks. Trust me, I understand what has happened.... I even knew when
I
did it .... I knew immediately that I had messed up. I just never imagined
it would be so hard to recover. I always save things, because I know it
downloads them to a temporary folder..... I was rushing, and everything was
hectic....and in clicking the save icon and closing the file I royally
screwed up. I had hope though --- when I found the Content.IE5 folder,
when
I found the 19 folders within that Content folder....yeh, I was hopeful
that
I would find it in there. But i think it is truly gone, replaced with
other
files...who knows why it isn't there. I just don't know why...when I
clicked the save icon...it saved it somewhere, it must have. Did it just
get
rid of it? Replace it with other temp internet downloads, files, and
pictures....I just feel like.....it saved it...somewhere. Didn't it ?

"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

Anne wrote:
Wow - Thank you guys very much for your help. I'm not sure that
creating a new email account would help, as the problem is not that
I've lost the email with the attachment....but that the finished
file, the file that I edited is lost. The attachment file in the
email, is only about halfway done-- not the completed file. My
finished file was edited, then saved....in that crazy temp folder.
I'm not sure why I could never find it. I even located all the
files in the Content.IE5 folder by checking "Do Not Hide Important
System Files and Folders" or somethin to that effect. And even
looking through all of those folders, I still could not locate my
file -- even though I saw things in there from a long time before
this file was downloaded and saved. For the life of me, I do not
know why I couldn't find my file.

I have run a million searches, looked in my recent documents on MS
Word, looked in hidden files and folders, even the Content.IE5 and
all of its subfolders and it just isn't there. What a pain ....
complete meltdown.....I'll be up all night re-doing my edits to the
document. Why must everything be so difficult.

Someone suggested a new email account?

It's not that this was difficult... You merely needed to save your
document
to a location you knew about/could easily get to in the first place. What
you did was akin to throwing something out the window of a speeding
vehicle
while blindfolded with the radio turned up full blast and expecting to get
it back later. Sure - you know what highway you were on - but...

From now on - save the attachment and edit the saved copy - not the one in
your email.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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