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Your suggestion to jody to use Windows search is reasonable. The disadvantage with Windows search is that it actually scans the disk every time you do a search, which can be very time consuming on a large disk or unrestricted search.
I prefer another tool called Search Everything from Voidtools:
http://www.voidtools.com/
The advantage to this tool is that it ties directly into the windows file system, NTFS. It performs the search filtering in real time as you type the letters in. If you type a letter “a” it shows you all of the files with that letter in the name. “ab” narrows the first search to names with that combination, ie CAB files.
You can limit the folders it searches to avoid clutter like the /Windows or /System or /Program files folders.
The disadvantage is that it has to run with administrative rights so you have to give it an admin password the first time you start it after restarting windows (I have tried several methods or running it as admin “automatically”, none have worked for me yet).
I find it handy because I save lots of articles and favorites each day. I often run into the same one several times over a span of days,weeks or months. So I make a habit of checking for file names before saving new copies (in case I am not saving to the same location, although I should be since I have a naming system in place that normally works). This ties in nicely with an addon I have for FireFox called “Plain Old Favorites”. It exposes the IE favorites folder completely to FF. Since IE Favorites are saved as windows “Shortcut” files, the Everything search finds them too where it doesn’t find native FF Bookmarks.
There is a another similar freeware tool called “UltraSearch” that also ties directly into NTFS.
(I have no association with Voidtools, just a satisfied user.)
Finding the Missing Digital Photos refers:
I think that you stopped a bit short in your answer to Jody Bell. Your answer will of course find the photos if they are still on the hard-drive but it seems most likely that they have been deleted and there are many free programs to then find and undelete them again.
One of the easiest to use and it also does not need to be installed, is Softperfect File Recovery which can be downloaded from http://www.softperfect.com/
Another older but good, program is Restoration which can be found by Googling “rest2514″ . It also does not need to be installed.
Of course, if the photos have been overwritten then they will not be recoverable
Regards
Charlie
great newsletter again
Thanks
Finding the Missing Digital Photos refers:
I think that you stopped a bit short in your answer to Jody Bell. Your answer will of course find the photos if they are still on the hard-drive but it seems most likely that they have been deleted and there are many free programs to then find and undelete them again.
One of the easiest to use and it also does not need to be installed, is Softperfect File Recovery which can be downloaded from http://www.softperfect.com/
Another older but good, program is Restoration which can be found by Googling “rest2514″ . It also does not need to be installed.
Of course, if the photos have been overwritten then they will not be recoverable
Regards
Charlie