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15-Mar-2009, 11:17 AM #1
How to find documents uploaded on forums
Hi everyone. This is my first post here =). A few months back, I downloaded some pdf files from a forum. It was until a few days later that I opened them up (due to boredom) and discovered they are actually pretty useful to me. I then decided to go back and find the site to see if there are other files relevant to me. However, even if I typed the entire title into the search engine (with " ") or took out some selected parts and run them in the search engine, the SE does not seem to know where the document is from. I do remember that the forum requires registration before you can view anything (registration is free though, thats how I got the documents) So anyone able to help me out?
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15-Mar-2009, 11:41 AM #2
Have you looked in your browser history.assuming you havent deleted it
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15-Mar-2009, 12:02 PM #3
This is a few months back so I assume that the history is gone (and of course I sometime clear my temp data to free some space), so that is not an option for me. =)
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15-Mar-2009, 06:17 PM #4
OK if you had to register at the site then you got a cookie. So look at your cookies and that may help.
Also did you have you password manager remember the password? If so look at your saved password in the password manager.
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17-Mar-2009, 04:12 AM #5
Yup I looked through them. But this is supposed to be half a year ago or more. And i also dont have a password manager...=( But is there any way to use search engines to find the documents?
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17-Mar-2009, 10:13 AM #6
qazxsw,
welcome to tech support guy,
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have you tried:
just type: [the NAME of the file].pdf
into the google search box,
and clicking the 'search' button???
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17-Mar-2009, 11:11 PM #7
If you posted at the forum then you can do a search also on your user name at google and that may help.
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