Finding a lost file . . . please help

[ahc1]

Throughout a thunderstorm in July this year, I shot a film sequence using my dig cam mounted on a tripod.
A lightning strike which hung in the sky for a couple of seconds then transformed into what I can describe as a short string of beads, 5 or six in length. The ball lightnings hung in the sky for maybe a couple of seconds and disappeared. I watched this maybe 5 second film sequence maybe a 1000 times and went to save it. I was offered to condense the file, I thought this would be a good idea as I was low on disc space. I entitled the file and clicked to save. It was saved as a sequence of numbers beginning 10............. . I have not been able to find this valuable film since. I have been searching for over 2 months. Does anybody have any idea on how to find this file? I will be very greatful.

[PEB]

Hi,

Have you tried with the search option in Windows? Have you searched in the hidden folders in windows? From your Folder Options activate the option to see hidden files..

:)

[Killer42]

Throughout a thunderstorm in July this year, I shot a film sequence using my dig cam mounted on a tripod.
A lightning strike which hung in the sky for a couple of seconds then transformed into what I can describe as a short string of beads, 5 or six in length. The ball lightnings hung in the sky for maybe a couple of seconds and disappeared. I watched this maybe 5 second film sequence maybe a 1000 times and went to save it. I was offered to condense the file, I thought this would be a good idea as I was low on disc space. I entitled the file and clicked to save. It was saved as a sequence of numbers beginning 10............. . I have not been able to find this valuable film since. I have been searching for over 2 months. Does anybody have any idea on how to find this file? I will be very greatful.

A couple of questions:

• Is it the filename or the contents that has the "sequence of numbers" that you mentioned?
• Have you found it yet?

One thing to keep in mind - the Windows XP search facility, in my experience, absolutely refuses to search the contents of files which don't match a properly registered extension belonging to a known application. So if the file has some weird extension, searching just by name might find it, while a search for something inside the file, which should find it, probably won't.