Happy Trails Computer Club |
| Part 3 - Finding your Files |
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| Have you ever wondered where it got to when
you download a file, or save a document or
attachment? Either you forget to specify
exactly where you want it to go or you fail
to take note of where it's going. The first
thing to try is going through the motions
using the same program. Often it will point
right at the folder where the file is. If
that doesn.t work, you can often use Start
> Find > Files or Folders ... to locate
it. Here's an example:
In this case, I knew approximately where it went, but I didn't know the name. I didn't know if it was a zip file or an exe file, but it had to be one of the two. So, using wild cards -- asterisks are wild cards -- I asked the Find utility to look for *.zip or *.exe files in D:\Download, including all subfolders. I found way too many. To narrow the search I clicked the Date tab and modified the search to include only the last 3 days. I used "Created" because downloaded files are given the current date for their created date.
This time I got only 5 files in the search results. I then scrolled through the results and quickly recognized the one I was looking for (instmsi.exe). You can see that it's in the D:\Download\Microsoft Updates folder. By using just a few characteristics of the file to create a search I was able to find the file in a minute or so. |
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