Hi, M Skabialka.
HOW did you "search everywhere"? Do you know all or any part of the
filename? I suppose you do, since you can see it on your flash drive and
copy it from there to your laptop.
When all else fails, you can always fall back to the good old "DOS"
commands. Most of them work as well as they ever did - or better - in a
Command Prompt window. What we old-timers still call a "DOS window", even
though we know it's not technically correct. ;^}
Press Start, type "cmd" (with or without quotes) into the Search box and
press Enter. This should open a Command Prompt window, which you can
Maximize (to about half the screen) to have room to work and to see the
results. in this window, use the Dir command (from days before Directories
became Folders), with switches. As with other commands in this window, type
"Dir /?" to see what switches and commands are available with the command.
At the prompt, type:
dir c:\ /s /a
and press Enter. But be prepared for a long wait as it lists EVERY file on
your C: drive. Press <Ctrl>+C to interrupt the listing and regain control,
or press the Pause/Break key. This command starts at the Root of C: (C:\)
and lists EVERY file, even those with Hidden or other attributes (/a), and
includes files and folders in all subfolders (/s). In other words, it's
like a runaway horse - but you can control it using switches and wildcards.
But this will list EVERY file on C:\!
So, slim down your search using wildcards for filenames and foldernames. If
you know that the name of file you are looking for is "lost.jpg", and it is
probably in the folder C:\Photos, then you can shorten the search by typing:
Dir C:\Photos\lost.jpg /s /a
But if the file is not there, then you can use other techniques. If you
know only a part of the filename, and that it is somewhere on C:, then you
might use:
dir C:\los* /s
I'll leave further "what ifs" for your exploration. But if the file is on
your HD, the Dir /s/a command will find it.
By the way, I don't know why "freenews" chose THIS newsgroup for your post,
since it is NOT a "64-bit" problem.
RC
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"M Skabialka" wrote in message news:i50rch$2ro7$...
I searched everywhere - until I copy from a flash drive it isn't there, but
if I try to save it again, it shows it is there.
"Lorne" <> wrote in message
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> "M Skabialka" <> wrote in message
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>> New Windows 7 64bit laptop. I went to my favorite genealogy site and
>> used their "save" button to save a scanned document. I created a library
>> on the laptop and saved it there. I then went into explorer to look for
>> it and open it but it wasn't there. I tried saving it again but it
>> showed me it was already there in the new folder. After several
>> fruitless attempts to save it in My Documents or on the Desktop, etc, I
>> saved it from the website to a flashdrive, then copied it from the flash
>> drive to my laptop. Now I can see it on the laptop.
>>
>> I've used Vista since it came out, so Win7 isn't that different, but I do
>> not want to have to save everything to external storage before copying it
>> to the laptop.
>> Any suggestions as to what is going on here?
>>
>
> Sounds like it has been saved in a different location to what you think.
> Have you looked for the folder under the public user documents?
>
> Else try to search the file name in explorer and see where it is.
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