How to find: Solved

[Derek Broughton]

H.S. wrote:

> Karl Larsen wrote:
> 
>>>   
>>     I found it in /tmp but tried $locate and it fails. I have no idea
>> why it failed. I now have the file on my desktop with a .flv and all the
>> movie viewers work.
>> 
> 
> When the browser tries to play a file (audio, vidoe, image, etc), it
> saves it in /tmp. When you actually download a file (right click -> save
> target as), then it saves at the default location (Desktop) or asks
> where you want to save it to.
> 
> The locate command fails in what way? IIRC, it successfully find a file
> only after the file has been "seen" by the locate commands archiving
> ability. No way how it works though.

updatedb - which probably explicitly excludes /tmp.
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derek