hermione17
For school projects, I usually save my work in a thumb drive, and then save a back-up copy into my computer. Recently I had some research to do and I unfortunately was in a rush, so I only saved a copy in my thumb drive.
However, my thumb drive is currently missing (still trying to search for it now) but I was wondering if it's possible to retrieve a copy of what I did from my computer, although I didn't save it? Like a web-page cache of sorts for example. Is this possible and if so how may I go about retrieving this info?
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if the computer has been off since you were working, it is no longer in memory.
a cache is on your hard drive, not in memory. Regardless, if you turned your computer off (or restarted) since doing your work, it is no longer cached (even if it was).
Here's some more bad news:
If it has been a while since you did your work, and it was in memory, it has been overwritten.
Even when your work was in memory, it was all over the place, and would be very difficult to piece together.
if the computer has been off since you were working, it is no longer in memory.
a cache is on your hard drive, not in memory. Regardless, if you turned your computer off (or restarted) since doing your work, it is no longer cached (even if it was).
Here's some more bad news:
If it has been a while since you did your work, and it was in memory, it has been overwritten.
Even when your work was in memory, it was all over the place, and would be very difficult to piece together.
Compare and contrast the human memory and computer memory?
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computer RAM memory is "volatile", meaning it is erased every time you restart the computer,and is kind of like short term memory. it holds instructions from the computer's operating system stored in the hard drive, which is like long term memory. However, EEPROM memory is not volatile, and it contains the info necessary to "wake up" your computer.
It's much more complicated than this of course, and while i don't understand it completely myself, i believe this is the gist of it.
computer RAM memory is "volatile", meaning it is erased every time you restart the computer,and is kind of like short term memory. it holds instructions from the computer's operating system stored in the hard drive, which is like long term memory. However, EEPROM memory is not volatile, and it contains the info necessary to "wake up" your computer.
It's much more complicated than this of course, and while i don't understand it completely myself, i believe this is the gist of it.
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