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  <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"/>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>

      <email>gnome-doc-list@gnome.org</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="author">

      <name>Shaun McCance</name>

      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>Michael Hill</name>

      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>

    </credit>

    <credit type="editor">

      <name>David King</name>

      <email>amigadave@amigadave.com</email>

    </credit>

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

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

    downloaded.</desc>

  </info>

<title>Find a lost file</title>

If you created or downloaded a file, but now you cannot find it, follow

these tips.

<list>

  <item>
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>.
</item>

  <item>
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.
</item>

  <item>
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.
</item>

  <item>
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. Click the

  view options button in the <app>Files</app> toolbar and enable <gui>Show

  Hidden Files</gui> to display them. See <link xref="files-hidden"/> to learn

  more.
</item>

</list>

</page>