Windows Media Player

Sounds like what you may have done is just opened and played the file directly from the website where it was located. In order to download the file, you will need to return to the website, select the file with right mouse button to bring up a menu,then select save file as, and give it a name and a directory path on your hard drive.

I have found my dowloaded video files and .jpg files--pics which the browser states is not authorized to be copied(copyrighted) located in the temporary internet files folder. To find it easily, use the 'find file' function on your start bar. when you find the file, save it from there. Depending on your browser settings, you may have to keep the browser session open until you have accessed the file in temp internet file folder.

Recently, I have found that the videos I download are saved inthe temp internet file folder as a shortcut only; this may be the reason you didn't see the file.

Good Luck!

Try this:
1/ Open up your Browser, and go to Internet Options.
2/ (I assume your using I.E)In the General Tab, Click on Settings for Temporary Internet files.
3/ Check to see how much space is reserved for the Folder, and also check the current location of the Temp Internet files.
4/ Go into Windows Explorer and go to the Temporary Interent Files, whatever that may be.
5/ Right Click on the folder and check the properties of it. If it has reached its level, or close to it, it will probably start purging files. Your video clip may be one of them.
6/ If this is indeed the case, then go back to the Interent Options and increase the amount of space. Or you could adopt better houskeeping practices and get rid of the temp files more often.

I have this problem occasionally when I download a clip, close the computer and come back again and the file is gone. I tend to cut and paste them to another directory.

You can also Right click on the clip's link and Save Target, and then specify where you want to save it to.

Hope this helps, but I would probably resign myself to the fact that the file is gone.

One other thing to try is go to Find and type in *.avi,*.mpeg, in the Named dialogue box. This will give you all files in a directory or hardrive, that have those extensions.

Okay let me try this again:

1) Return to the website from which you initially played the music file.
2) Select the music file with the right mouse button to open a menu.
3)With the left mouse button, click on "save as".
4) When the dialog box opens, type a name in the "File Name" box, and select a folder from the large window in which to save the file, then click the "save" button.

If you have Netscape you can hold down he shift while clicking on the link to the file you want to save. This will force the file to be saved on your hard drive instead of just opening using Media Player. This is the only reason I keep Netscape on my PC.

Hope this helps.

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