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Any way to retrieve this image from my cache? When saved it only saves as a 1.7KB blank file.

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I'm trying to retrieve an image from Firefox's cache but so far have had no luck in doing so. The picture was hosted on imageshack and I had it open in a window but when I refreshed the page several hours later it was gone. I refreshed the page several more times, tried messing with the url to see if that did anything, but no luck. I haven't cleared anything on Firefox so I'm hoping there's some way I can recover it from the cache.

I followed the instructions on this page: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/msg/73bab3fb55ac5b42 However, when I right clicked the URL and chose "Save Link As..." it only saved a 1.7KB file that none of my photo editing programs can recognize or open. I've tried going to cache entries for other image links and saving them and when I choose Save Link As for those they save just fine, and in full size, so I'm not sure why this one won't work...I'm using Offline Mode so I'm not sure why the picture no longer being hosted online should make a difference one way or the other. I'm just hoping that my act of refreshing the page and nothing being there didn't overwrite the cache file and thus erase the cache'd image. So is there any hope of retrieving this picture or is it gone for good?

I'm trying to retrieve an image from Firefox's cache but so far have had no luck in doing so. The picture was hosted on imageshack and I had it open in a window but when I refreshed the page several hours later it was gone. I refreshed the page several more times, tried messing with the url to see if that did anything, but no luck. I haven't cleared anything on Firefox so I'm hoping there's some way I can recover it from the cache. I followed the instructions on this page: http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.support.firefox/msg/73bab3fb55ac5b42 However, when I right clicked the URL and chose "Save Link As..." it only saved a 1.7KB file that none of my photo editing programs can recognize or open. I've tried going to cache entries for other image links and saving them and when I choose Save Link As for those they save just fine, and in full size, so I'm not sure why this one won't work...I'm using Offline Mode so I'm not sure why the picture no longer being hosted online should make a difference one way or the other. I'm just hoping that my act of refreshing the page and nothing being there didn't overwrite the cache file and thus erase the cache'd image. So is there any hope of retrieving this picture or is it gone for good?

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Hi.

Once the image in question is replace with another one, the old one is erased. That is to say, if you open an image, say www.domain.com/image.png, and it's a 200x200 image, then you close it, it's still on cache, and you can access it through the cache. But if the image is changed in the server, that same exact url, and you access it again, at you see a 250x200 image (just an example), then the 200x200 is gone forever.

Your hope is that you never accessed the same URL again, so the old cache wasn't erased. If you know the url of the image, simply select offline mode (File > Work Offline, I think) and access its url. It will load the cached version and not check for the online one. Only if there is a cached version, of course.

I hope this helps.

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That 1.7 KB file is probably an HTML file with an error message that the image isn't found on the server (404 error).

You can try a Google search for that file by prefixing the link with cache: