I'm an idiot.
November 30, 2010 12:35 AM Subscribe
Can I find my cache for a specific website I visited regularly on Google Chrome on a mac?
So I set up a simple wiki page where people put up their addresses for other people in group x. I stupidly wiped my server for an os update (long story...). I backed up some files but not the ones for this. It was not public, so it was not cached by archive.org or google.
It was one of my top visited sites on google chrome. I can see the old site in the thumbnail, but it won't be there when I click it. I'm afraid to click it in case that resets the cache. I'm on a mac. Is there any way I can salvage this?
So I set up a simple wiki page where people put up their addresses for other people in group x. I stupidly wiped my server for an os update (long story...). I backed up some files but not the ones for this. It was not public, so it was not cached by archive.org or google.
It was one of my top visited sites on google chrome. I can see the old site in the thumbnail, but it won't be there when I click it. I'm afraid to click it in case that resets the cache. I'm on a mac. Is there any way I can salvage this?
On my machine I would:
Find out where the cache directory is from the settings.
Shut off the browser.
Do a string search for something I knew was in the file over all the files in the cache dir.
posted by telstar at 12:44 AM on November 30, 2010
Find out where the cache directory is from the settings.
Shut off the browser.
Do a string search for something I knew was in the file over all the files in the cache dir.
posted by telstar at 12:44 AM on November 30, 2010
I don't know the answer (Chrome probably caches stuff in disk files somewhere but I don't know where) but while you're waiting for someone to give a better answer you should probably stop using Chrome— do your browsing in Safari or FF or something in the meantime. Each page you load is one page closer to pushing your old website out of the cache.
posted by hattifattener at 12:45 AM on November 30, 2010
posted by hattifattener at 12:45 AM on November 30, 2010
Response by poster: Good call. I think I may have visited it once or twice on safari a while back too for compatibility testing, but I don't think I've used safari since then. I'm on firefox now.
Chrome does not have any information in the preferences about where caches are stored.
posted by wayland at 12:52 AM on November 30, 2010
Chrome does not have any information in the preferences about where caches are stored.
posted by wayland at 12:52 AM on November 30, 2010
Well, for Safari, the cache is stored in ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db, which is an sqlite3 database.
posted by hattifattener at 12:55 AM on November 30, 2010
posted by hattifattener at 12:55 AM on November 30, 2010
Response by poster: How can I do anything with that file?
posted by wayland at 1:13 AM on November 30, 2010
posted by wayland at 1:13 AM on November 30, 2010
Response by poster: Maybe another possibility: I unpartitioned the hard drive of my server and then reinstalled debian over it. I know exactly where the file in question would have been. Are there any utilities that I can use to recover a handful of files that were in a folder that I know?
posted by wayland at 1:45 AM on November 30, 2010
posted by wayland at 1:45 AM on November 30, 2010
Chrome doesn't have a work offline mode. What happens if you unplug the internet and go to the url?
posted by empath at 8:07 AM on November 30, 2010
posted by empath at 8:07 AM on November 30, 2010
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posted by wayland at 12:39 AM on November 30, 2010