Question Locating lost picture file on my HDD

[bradleyheathhays]

I'm trying to locate a picture file I was working with some years ago and now I can't find it. I don't remember intentionally saving it anywhere on my computer, but I could have, just not sure.

Is there any way to do a search of all the picture files on my PC hard drive and display all the results? It might take scanning through thousands of pictures, but at this point that's the only way I can imagine finding it, if it's on my HDD at all.

Thanks.

 

[ThatVietGuy]

Open File Explorer and type "*.jpg" (or whatever file extension and without the quotes) in the search bar in the top right. This will list every file on your computer with that extension.

 

[TerryLaze]

You could also use everything search engine, it will allow you to search for all general picture types at once not just one at a time.

 

[johnbl]

start cmd.exe as an admin then
run these commands:
cd c:\
dir /s *.jpg > c:\outfile.txt

then run notepad c:\outfile.txt to take a look at the list

this method should search the entire drive including hidden directories.
(you would have to search each drive to get all of the files, and this is only for jpg files you could use a different file type for different graphics formats)

the list will not be sorted by the date, you could run it through another
program and sort by the dates and only look at certain date ranges.