The files may not be on her computer, but they may still be in the search
index.
Have her rebuild the index...
Start - Control Panel - Indexing options - advanced
Continue (UAC)
Rebuild
ok
This will probably take a long time, so plug the laptop power adaptor in.
"howiem" <howiem@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:86CB441F-8273-46BC-B20B-784C8CC19B35@xxxxxx
Quote:
> A friend of mine has a Toshiba laptop with Vista. She was running a search
> and found some .mov files, one of which was about 250MB , another was
> about
> 16 MB. However there was no path shown in the search results. When she
> tried
> a right click to check the properties, nothing happened. She was able to
> right click other files which did show a path.
> She did not download either file, as she is on a slow dialup connection,
> and
> by the dates of the files, they were on her computer before she bought it.
> I
> am using XP Pro, and not familiar with Vista. I tried googling and
> copernicing everything I could think of. My suspicion is that the file is
> a
> trace left over from something that was on the computer before she bought
> it.
> She has tried a secure delete tool but tyhey will not erase. If she looks
> in
> Explorer, she cannot find the files, only when she searches, and they
> files
> do not seem to be taking any real space on her hard drive. Does anyone
> know
> how she can either find a path or get rid of the files, short of a
> reformat?
>