Odd file problem
Sitting on the sofa doing some work on the laptop a week or so ago, Mrs SLVA thought it would be a good laugh to distract me from my work by 'waxing my dolphin'.

She succeeded in distracting me but I got my own back by capturing her in the act on the laptop's webcam. Har har!

I played it back to her and she made me delete it. So I did (and used Window Washer to completely shred the file).

Fast-forward to earlier this morning, I've just searched my hdd for *.mpg (to find a stop-motion animation of a Blu-Tac morph I once created) and there, in the search results, was my homemade porn. porn.mpg, including original filepath, filesize and a thumbnail! WTF??

I try to open the file, but it won't open. I try to move it, but it won't. But the thumbnail and file info exists.

Where is that stored? I thought thumbs.db might be it, but there isn't one for the folder it was in. I even did a full 'wash' on the hdd with all the options selected, but it's still there.

How do I remove this retained information?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:05, 6 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't want to know this shit,

(PsychoChomp, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:09, Reply)

You say that
but I bet you're loading up Limewire just on the off-chance
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:16, Reply)

It might be
in the recent docs bit?

try www.ccleaner.com as that removes any temp files you wish it to.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:10, Reply)

Recent versions of Windows index your files automagically
It makes searches much faster, but at the expense of your privacy in such delicate situations as this.

You could turn off indexing, rebuild it or search the web for other ways to clean up after your filthy mess.

My money's on the indexing.
( chart cat has an itch, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:12, Reply)

Could well be
although I would've thought that Windows Washer would have cleared it
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:13, Reply)

Ha
You're a star, it seems to have worked. Cheers
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 16 Jun 2009, 13:22, Reply)