Lost file

ankspon

I wrote a CV on my laptop 6 months ago,i have stupidly forgot where i saved it.After searching for hours i cannot find it,cannot remember the file name and don't know where else to look.Any ideas or quick fixes to find it?

Mr_Forgetful

Search on your computer for a document with your name in it. Depending on what operating system you have it will alter slightly. In vista there is a search box in the top right of the explorer window. To get the explorer window click start then computer to get a window of all the computer files. Then add your name to the search box and it should look through all docs on your box with your name in.

Freddie_Snowbits

Search using contains the words, i.e. Your Name

macman

Might be quicker to do a search for 'CV'.

JJ_Egan

Or even search for a word you would have used like an employer .

jje

ankspon

I have tried all these but thanks for trying.

Nilrem

If you know the extension (doc, docx etc for Word) do a general search for any files in any locations with that extension - it may take a while, and give you a lot of results but it might work.

Mr_Forgetful

I don't know what operating system you have but the search tool on vista is known to be bad. I had to download additional software to find a document I knew I had. For my work I tend to use the search on textpad. It's quick and accurate and free. http://www.textpad.com/

ankspon

I should have said,it's windows 7

macman

So is it saved as a word doc, rtf, pdf, or what?
If you know the file format that will greatly narrow your search.

Mr_Forgetful

I think I had difficulty in vista with searching when I changed the indexing options to try and speed up the machine. Have a look on this thread below at the bottom as there is some advice on setting your folder options which include indexing. Sorry I can't be more helpful but I am stuck on Vista and xp. I would still try textpad as that doesn't care about your indexing of the files for searching.