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Thanks, i'm taking a look but there are a lot of randomly named files! I did think something like this must be the case but I thought maybe in another location other than the cache. Is it likely to be under his home directory? On 12/04/07, Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan Roberts wrote: > > Ok, this is going to sound a strange request but...my brother > > downloaded a piece of work but used "open with" rather than save to > > disk and then just clicked "save" rather than "save as" presumably > > just writing over the tmp file from the browser. Is there anyway I can > > get this back?! > > > > Yours, > > > > Jon > > > > > 'Open With', AFAIK downloads a copy of the file to the browser's cache > and *then* opens the local copy with the nominated program. If you > think about it, it would have to work this way otherwise the original > file could have hundreds of copies of itself open at once and bring the > server to its' knees. The copy may well still be in the cache, assuming > you don't empty it when closing Firefox. > > Kind regards, > > Julian > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html