[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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.

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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.

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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.

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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.

 

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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.

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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?

 

[Finds images I have never downloaded (solved)]

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 )