re: file location of email attachment
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 3:53 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(20226 messages posted)
You're going yo have to have the discipline to break the habit. It WAS located in
the Temp folder (NOT the Inet temp folder). On closing the app, it is normally deleted
without a trace.
On Monday, October 6, 2008 at 2:16 am, jtonokawa wrote:
>i sometimes email a file from my workplace to my home. i open the attachment at
>home FROM the email message by double-clicking on the attachment. i then proceed
>to work on the file. instead of saving it to an intended directory, i mistakenly
>click on the SAVE icon in the application. when i try to find the file, it's nowhere
>to be found.
>
>i have chosen the viewing option of seeing hidden files and i've traced the directory
>of the file attachment to a subdirectory /temporary internet files/content.IE5.
>the subdirectory to this is a string of letters with 1 or 2 numbers. however, this
>subdirectory is not the same everytime.
>
>please help me locate the file on which i've spent hours editing and can't locate
>on my hard drive.
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