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Fallout
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 10:08
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If I typed a post so big, that if my granny read it, she would be long since dead before she got anywhere near the end, and then I hit PREVIEW, and saw my preview, and then like a uber pleb, must not have hit SUBMIT, because it's not on the forum in question, do we think this post will exist somewhere in my cache?

Normally I am careful, and do ctrl+c, or similar, before sending a big message post, but this time I had not anticipated I would spend so long writing it! And of course, it vanish into the ether. Any thoughts?

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RedneckRambo
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 10:13
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That sucks dude lol.

And i dont know the answer lol. Just saying that sucks.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 10:15
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Ooh! quick google search turned up someone saying to type "about:cache" in the google chrome URL bar. I have firefox, but I did it anyways, and it brought me to a page all about cache files.

So, type in "about:cache" into your url bar and see if it works! it Probably does on all recent firefox/chrome browsers, and might on opera/safari/IE/whatnot


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Fallout
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 10:38
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Thanks for that buddy. That was actually very interesting, and I think I found the post, but it only displays it as a hex kind of grid map. The data is probably in there somewhere, but it's probably too much effort to extract it. I tried to find files in the Chrome cache that might correspond to it, but same problem! I bet all this data is compressed and/or stored in a custom format, or something.

Damn that preview post button! I bet I got distracted before hitting submit and then forget what I was doing.

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Neuro Fuzzy
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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 10:53
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mine says "Content-Encoding: gzip"

Each of the two characters is a hexadecimal digit, and two hexadecimal digits equals a byte, so you have all the byte data of a gzip compressed text file.

Errm, it would be a massive pain to extract all the data from that grid-like display though. (I looked and saw what you were talking about - for clarity's sake I'm still running firefox, not chrome,but this all appears to be the same)

If you can find the file's location on disk, it would be painless to rename the extension to a .gzip file, and extract it! For me, the two possible directories are:
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/36ldevos.default/Cache
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/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/36ldevos.default/Cache

I think this would be in the %APPDATA%/roaming folder on windows.


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Posted: 28th Jun 2011 12:12
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Good idea. The only problem is, there are a lot of files from that time period in the cache directory, but it might be worth a plug trying to find it. Either way, it's good finding out how this stuff works in case I ever lose something really valuable. Cheers for ya help.

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