How Do I Find Files Created Today?

Discussion in 'Software' started by ItsWendy, May 29, 2020.

  1. ItsWendy

    ItsWendy MajorGeek

    Ther have been quite a few cases where I create a file and have no idea where it went. Is there a simple way to find newly created files in Win 10?
     
  2. _nullptr

    _nullptr Major Geeky Geek Geek

    If you've saved the file to user space (most likely) then browse to C:\Users and in the search box type in "datecreated:today" excluding the quotation marks.
    You can always browse to C: and do the same thing but you'll have a lot more files to sift through.
     
  3. foogoo

    foogoo Major "foogoo" Geek

    Another trick is to reopen the app and do a "file save as" and it will usually open to where the last file was saved. If it is anything like MS Office the app might have them listed as recently used
     
  4. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    I saved a web page as a pdf and didn't know where it went. (I wasn't given an option as to where I wanted it to be saved.)

    This is what I did to find it.
    1. I opened a program called Agent Ransack.
    2. I put in the important info as you can see in the screenshot.
    wildcard followed by the extension, the drive to look at and I picked a date after the previous day so it didn't supply me with every pdf on the computer.
    agent_ransack.jpg
    https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/agent_ransackfilelocator_lite.html
     
  5. ItsWendy

    ItsWendy MajorGeek

    Mission Accomplished.

    Thank you.

    Wendy 200529.jpg
     

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