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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="files-lost">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="files#more-file-tasks"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.6.0" version="0.2" date="2012-09-28" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-20" status="candidate"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="candidate"/>
    <revision version="gnome:45" date="2024-03-04" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email>[email protected]</email>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Follow these tips if you can’t find a file you created or
    downloaded.</desc>
  </info>

<title>Find a lost file</title>

<p>If you created or downloaded a file, but now you cannot find it, follow
these tips.</p>

<list>
  <item><p>If you do not remember where you saved the file, but you have some
  idea of how you named it, you can <link xref="files-search">search for the
  file by name</link>.</p></item>

  <item><p>If you just downloaded the file, your web browser might
  have automatically saved it to a common folder. Check the
  <file>Desktop</file> and <file>Downloads</file> folders in your home
  folder.</p></item>

  <item><p>You might have accidentally deleted the file. When you delete
  a file, it gets moved to the trash, where it stays until you manually
  empty the trash. See <link xref="files-recover"/> to learn how to
  recover a deleted file.</p></item>

  <item><p>You might have renamed the file in a way that made the file hidden.
  Files that start with a <file>.</file> or end with a <file>~</file> are
  hidden in the file manager. Press the menu button in the sidebar of the
  window  and enable <gui>Show Hidden Files</gui> to display them. See
  <link xref="files-hidden"/> to learn more.</p></item>
</list>

</page>