I thought these things were cached on my hard drive...

September 7, 2005 10:13 AM

I've been asked--nay, commanded--to recover an image from a web site that recently went offline.

Google Images does not have the image (at least not with the same filename) and oh god I don't think I can look through all 22K+ Care Bear images on the web. (No, narrowing search doesn't help either.) I tried my Temporary Internet Files, but while I can get a listing of files in the Temporary Internet Files directory, if I click on one it seems to load it from the (recently defunct) URL. Is it really still on my hard drive or is it gone forever? Google only turns up pages on how to clean out my Temporary Internet Files folder.

(Longshot: it's two Care Bears frolicking on either side of a large star. White background. Anyone? Anyone? No, it's not for some bratty kid, it's for a mildly autistic friend who is finding the loss of this image very hard to take.)

posted by Soliloquy to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Try entering the web address here:

http://www.waybackmachine.org/
posted by quadog at 10:15 AM on September 7, 2005

Yay, a CareBears tag! Finally.

Hopefully the Way Back Machine will have the image that you need. What color are the bears? Does the image look like this?
posted by iconomy at 10:32 AM on September 7, 2005

If you want to look at graphics files in your Temporary Internet Files folder, just copy-and-paste the files into a different folder, and open the copies as you would any file. It's the fact that the files are in that particular folder that causes Windows to do what it's doing.
posted by cerebus19 at 10:34 AM on September 7, 2005

Thank you quadog, I had completely forgotten about that site. *smacks forehead* iconomy, actually it was this one, newly restored to the Internet. But very close! If I hadn't been able to find it on the Wayback Machine, I probably would have attempted to recreate it from your image. (With potentially disasterous results; I doubt it would have been accepted.) And thanks for the information cerebus19, I'll know what to do next time.

All is now right with the world. :)

(P.S. iconomy, since you like Care Bears, the original site was http://www.oz.net/~carebear/Graphics.html)
posted by Soliloquy at 11:01 AM on September 7, 2005

I think I just got diabetes looking at that image.
posted by Captain_Tenille at 2:11 PM on September 7, 2005