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Hidden Files and Folders / Content.IE5!?!?
Ragmuffina wrote:
the same happened to me only i've lost coursework due to be sent today. I am frantically trying to search the internet trying to find a way to access the files. ;( Did you read the entire conversation you have responded to? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Hidden Files and Folders / Content.IE5!?!?
There has been some bad advice here. I just did the same stupid thing and I
did recover the files. 1. Go to disk clean-up (I assume you will know how to do this, if not, look it up it is easy) 2. Click on Temporary Internet Files 3. Click on view files (a window should open with the folder Content.IE5 4. In that window go to tools 5. Click Folder options 6. Click on "Show hidden files and folders" and unclick "hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" you will be prompted warning you that you shouldn't be looking at system files. click yes. 7. Now the hidden folders will be displayed 8. Sort the folders by date 9. Your file will be in one of the hidden folders that has been modified since the time you lost your file. There may be a dozen folders to check. Find the one with your file, open the file, save it somewhere smart. 10. Go back and reclick "hide protected operating system files" |
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Hidden Files and Folders / Content.IE5!?!?
another snippage of the entire conversation
Read it he http://groups.google.com/group/micro...74fdf601932ca/ Invictus wrote: There has been some bad advice here. I just did the same stupid thing and I did recover the files. 1. Go to disk clean-up (I assume you will know how to do this, if not, look it up it is easy) 2. Click on Temporary Internet Files 3. Click on view files (a window should open with the folder Content.IE5 4. In that window go to tools 5. Click Folder options 6. Click on "Show hidden files and folders" and unclick "hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" you will be prompted warning you that you shouldn't be looking at system files. click yes. 7. Now the hidden folders will be displayed 8. Sort the folders by date 9. Your file will be in one of the hidden folders that has been modified since the time you lost your file. There may be a dozen folders to check. Find the one with your file, open the file, save it somewhere smart. 10. Go back and reclick "hide protected operating system files" Amazingly lucky. Sometimes the folder is gone. The good advice is *always* save and work from the saved document - not the one you decided to open from your email attachment directly. Everything else is a 'maybe' in terms of keeping this from happening again. Recovery was not an option in this case because they *found* the folder with everything visible and the document was not there. That's the way it occurs at least half of the time - if not more. The good advice is not to let that happen. Make saving first in a proper location a habit. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Hidden Files and Folders / Content.IE5!?!?
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 -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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