Re: mystery file showed up during defrag

Mak wrote:
%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 news:u44FY3wIGHA.3408@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
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

Using advanced search (hidden and system files), I have no found two references: the url of the website that featured the video, and the video title itself. But there was no path given as to where these two items reside. Perhaps System Restore??
.

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