Ghost files

[RatherBFlyin]

Well, I downloaded and installed a screenshot utility (MWSnap) and took some test screenshots on my latest flight. The problem is that I can't find them. The utility says they were saved, and I can open them and edit them using GIMP, but when I pull up my Windows Explorer window and go to the folder they were saved in, I can't find them. Very odd. I know that hidden files/folders are supposed to be visible, but these ones just don't show up at all. What am I missing?

[RatherBFlyin]

Hmm, I changed the folder that the screenshots were being saved into, and now they appear to be showing up like normal in the Windows Explorer. Very odd.

[Dennis]

...Very odd.

Not really. It was simply that it was saving onto another folder. The same thing happens whenever I download things with Firefox. There's supposed to be a temp folder, yet whenever I searched for it with IE Explorer, it never appeared. It wasn't until I wrote the full direction (c/user/windows...blah blah) that I found the folder.

[RatherBFlyin]

Well, if it was saving to another folder, then the other program (GIMP) should have had trouble finding it too, right? I was using the exact same process to drill down to the folder I wanted with all three methods (MWSnap, GIMP, and Windows Explorer), and only one of them was having trouble finding the files. I dunno. Windows is silly sometimes.

[sanins192]

Even when you opened the file with the GIMP then went to Save As and looked for the original source file, was it not there?

[RatherBFlyin]

I tried overwriting the original file with GIMP, and it still did not appear in Windows Explorer. It wasn't until I changed the location that the screenshots were saved to (I actually created a subfolder inside the default folder) that I was able to find them using WE.

[sanins192]

Hmmm. That's weird. As long as it's working now, though.