Eventually it’ll be removed from the browser cache, and if you want it again you’ll need to download it again. The thinking is that if you just click the link, all you want to do is read the contents without saving it. Not only is that not obvious and not friendly, it’s also not something you or I are ever expected to actually use. Yes, you can find it – I just searched for the filename on my hard disk and found it here: C:\Users\LeoN\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\Low\IE\SSTJM638\routinemaintenance_toc.pdf Well, like any page you download from the internet, your web browser downloads it to its cache. OK, so it downloaded to your computer … but where do these downloads go? As a result, if you simply click on that link to the example PDF above, Internet Explorer may 1 download the file, open it, and display it: They’re not really web pages, but in most cases, web browsers display them as if they are. If it’s something other than a web page (like a document or software, for instance) then the browser will, in all likelihood, offer to download it for you. If it’s another web page, of course your browser will display it. When you click on a link, your browser may do several different things, depending on what the link points to. This example link shows the entire URL, but you’ll also see download links that look more readable:Įither will get you the same download. It contains roughly the first 10% of that book, including its table of contents: This is a link to the PDF sample I make available for The Ask Leo! Guide to Routine Maintenance. We’ll learn how to avoid that.Īnd we’ll look at how to find your file, regardless of where it landed.įirst, here’s an example file for you to download. There’s another place that downloads often end up that’s kind of dangerous, as it gets “cleaned up” every so often – meaning you could eventually lose your download. We’ll look at why, and how to fix it as well. Typically they go into your “Downloads” or “My Documents” folder, so we’ll look at how best to check that.īut it’s also possible that they went into the same folder as the last download.
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