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July 16, 2005
Google desktop search might save your skin
It's happened to all of us, surely, and probably more than once: you spend hours working on a document and then accidentally obliterate the contents.
Over on a blog called The River, a young journalist and recent mother - congratulations! - writes how she experienced that unique feeling of dread when you look for the file, and find it isn't there any more, or notice that the file size says "O kb".
Fortunately she'd been using Google Desktop Search, and there in the cache were three or four cached copies of the file. She was able to retrieve most of the file, and save several hours of work.
And here's some tips on getting more out of Google's desktop saviour.
Posted by cw at July 16, 2005 02:39 PM
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CW,
heard your segment this Thursday regarding desktop google which i've downloaded and used but can't hind refernce to Spindle. Can you help?
Posted by: Robert at July 22, 2005 01:10 PM
I wasn't on air on Thursday. I wrote about it here. I'm not sure what Spindle is.
Posted by: cw at July 22, 2005 02:13 PM
sounds great - but it must be very easy for someone else to spy in your cache - how do you delete the cache - for security purposes?
Can the cache be accessed without the Desktop search? What folder is it in?
Posted by: anne at July 24, 2005 06:15 PM