mrchirpy

Ok, I've just tested things by looking at only 2 maps on a map site, and when I scanned with Recuva it found 59 maps, so I think I know what's going on now, and what I'll be doing about it in the future.So my original problem wasn't actually a Recuva problem ( which does a sterling job ), it was my understanding of what was going on behind the scenes. Thanks again for all the help.

Thanks nukecad, I've followed your link and turned off the Firefox "pre-fetch", as per the article. It seems to have speeded things up somewhat, although isn't that what "pre-fetch" is supposed to do, i.e. speed things up? Things are certainly quicker with it turned off, and now hopefully things won't be accumulating in the cache like they were before. I have a good feeling about this. Thanks again.

But the thing is nukecad, that Recuva was finding things that I had never downloaded, or even seen on the screen. I think now that it's something to do with the Firefox cache, which I clear out from time to time, but it looks like everything is recoverable when I do it,which is fair enough.. Recuva is brilliant for recovering things that I accidentally deleted, but it also throws up hundreds of other things that I never downloaded in the first place. It just looked strange when thousands of images came up that I'd never seen before. Anyway, rightly or wrongly, I blame the Firefox cache.

Something else as a footnote, I think Recuva is finding things deleted from the Firefox cache. I thought when you cleared the cache it securely deleted everything, but apparently not, when I looked into it.

OK, I think the 2 answers you have given me have shed some light on the matter, so I will consider it solved, and just keep an eye on things as I go along in the future. Thanks for the help.

I'm the only person using this PC,and I know for a fact that Recuva is finding things I have never even looked at on screen, and I certainly haven't downloaded them. So Recuva is doing an excellent job of finding all these things, but where is it pulling them from in the first place?

When I run a scan for "all" files, the thumbnail results show hundreds of images which I have not downloaded at any stage. Some of them are images that I have viewed whilst browsing, but many of them are things that I know for a fact I have never seen before. Where are they coming from? (When I scan for just "images", the offending images don't show up on the scan )