Here's a pretty interesting problem for you gents.
So there's an important photo I saved from someone else's facebook profile back in 2013. Fastforward to now, and I realise I dont know where the heck that photo is gone now. It's buried deep in my hard drive somewhere (its the same one I've been using). But I don't know where.
I can't redownload the photo, because the user deleted it ( and that's a whole other story). So the copy on my computer is the only remaining one.
Stuff I've tried:
>Searching my computer
But the filename was a bunch of numbers and I obviously dont know the exact filename. Typing *.jpg in the searchbar returns me around 2000+ images which I can't be assed to sift through.
>Viewing my download history:
Can't find any record, it was way back in 2013 after all, I must have cleared Chrome's history a thousand times since then.
>Recovery software (in case I accidently deleted it)
Same problem as the first one, I don't know the exact filename so I can't find it among the sea of images.
I'm gonna take another crack at this tomorrow morning. In the meantime, is there any way I can find out what the hell my computer did to this photo from 4 years ago? Or any software online I can use?
>>296757
If you didn't rename it, it will be called
*_*_*.jpg or *_*_*_*.jpg
Search for that in Windows, and view as thumbnails to save time.
>>296757
Not sure exactly what tool you can use for this. But look for a program that allows you to search with regular expressions. And then it'd be just a matter of searching dor something like
> (\d+_)+\d+\.jpg
>>296760
Thanks, will try it out
>>296764
What does the /d represent?
>>296772
A digit number. But I was looking at some of the pictures I saved from facebook and I noticed that they ended in n
So a facebook picture looks something liker 1224_12345_1234_n.jpg
Search *_*_*_n.jpg like >>296760 mentioned or look for a program that searches with regular expressions and use
> (\d_)+_n\.jpg