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

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

Soliloquy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:13:17 -0800

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.)

By: quadog

quadog — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:15:35 -0800

Try entering the web address here:

http://www.waybackmachine.org/

By: iconomy

iconomy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:32:45 -0800

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?

By: cerebus19

cerebus19 — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:34:26 -0800

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.

By: Soliloquy

Soliloquy — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:01:03 -0800

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)

By: Captain_Tenille

Captain_Tenille — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 14:11:29 -0800

I think I just got diabetes looking at that image.