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If you "Open from location" instead of "Save to Disk", does this mean the file is not really saved on your computer?

Asked by Kraigmo (1381points) | asked 1 month ago | 7 responses | “Great Question” (1points) | Flag as…

If email comes with a .txt document. I have the option of “open file from location” or “save to disk”. We all know what save to disk does.

But if I choose the first option, does this mean, that I’m only temporarily viewing the document and its not really saved?

And if it is saved, where would it be?

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C;/Users/[username]/apps/roaming/temp

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Sarcasm's avatar

It is saved, but it’s saved to a temp file which may (or may not) get deleted within a short period of time.
If you use Firefox, it will go into C:\Documents and Settings\[YOUR USERNAME HERE]\Local Settings\Temp

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pdworkin's avatar

oops, reverse those slashes. how sloppy of me.

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Zen's avatar

I’m saving this question for future use.

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aanuszek1's avatar

It might be noteworthy that the files in this folder are deleted upon (reboot?)

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Sarcasm's avatar

There’s some control somewhere to set how regularly things get purged (May vary from browser to browser, and OS to OS). I’ve got things in my /Temp/ folder last modified in July, which is around the time that I had gone through and deleted a lot of crap.

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Kraigmo's avatar

thanks you all

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