Re: mystery file showed up during defrag

%userprofile%\recent is overlooked for example (I doubt you can see .lnk
being moved in defrag, size is not big enough)
Search with advanced settings on should've picked that up or, dir filename.*
/a /s

"Sharon F" <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:08:52 -0500, richard wrote:
>
>> I sent a friend a comic streaming video from the Google Video website
>> and had a copy sent to myself. I have deleted that copy and emptied the
>> recycle bin. Later that day when I was defragging my hard drive, I
>> happened to see the title of the video go by--"moving {name of vdeo}.
>>
>> I thought that was odd and went on to search the hard drive for the file
>> and it could not be found.
>>
>> I am not especially concerned about this particular file, but it made me
>> wonder if previous files that I had deleted to the recycle bin (and then
>> emptied the bin) are somehow still there in some ghostly form.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Thanks
>
> Since you'd already emptied the Recycle Bin, the only other places I can
> think of where Windows might have the file tucked away would be in a
> System
> Restore point (possible if the file was stored on the desktop before
> deleting) or a copy in the browser cache (IE cache is still a bit brain
> dead after all of these years).
>
> Or a third party applications may have grabbed a copy: GoBack (similar to
> System Restore) or Symantec's Protected Recycle Bin. If using the
> protected
> bin, not only do you need to empty the recycle bin but empty the protected
> bin as well.
>
> If I've overlooked another possible hiding place, I'm sure that someone
> will mention it.
>
> --
> Sharon F
> MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User


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