How to find:

[Jay Ridgley]

 > Message: 5
 > Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:54:03 -0600
 > From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
 > Subject: How to find:
 > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
 >
 >
 > I d/l a file from Google and like Google the file name is weird:
 >
 > 2eecb5e357c403d2.flv.mp4
 >
 > My Firefox copies everything to /home/karl/Desktop but this file does
 > not show up there. It is a bad filename since it has two periods in it.
 > I expected it might be a problem but it goes on.
 >
 > As the file, a movie, finished loading Totem jumped up and said it
 > would like to show this movie but it needed more codex files. I got them
 > and now Totem will show the movie.
 >
 > The problem is I can't find the file! Does anyone know where this
 > bad file is stored?
 >
 >
 > Karl
 >
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 >
 > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
 > Linux User
 > #450462 http://counter.li.org.
 > PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7

Karl,

To find the file (and there is nothing wrong with the name):

cd <your home directory>
find . -name '2eecb5e357c*' -print

If the file is in your home directory ANYWHERE it will find it...

If the file does not show up then try:

cd /
sudo find . -name '2eecb5e357c*' -print

If the file is on any mounted partition on your system ANYWHERE it fill 
find it...

The last one may take some time, so be patient...

Another item to check is where you told your browser to put download file:

in the browser go Edit>Preferences>Main and look at where you told it to 
put your files...

Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
Registered Linux User ID - 9115