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NOMEDIA file which will not be detected by the antivirus and will keep on triggering the malware activity so I suggested him to give it a try. If you can provide the exact solution than it would be great for us to learn. Izzy — Parth Pandya. But just looking for such a file won't show the culprit, though it can be an aspect in this context.

Possible way to find the culprit — tjt, please verify: From the app drawer, open the app "Downloads". It should list all downloads and, in a separate column, give the package name of the app having requested it. Show 4 more comments.

Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Jpen10 Jpen10 1. Add a comment. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. Podcast Who is building clouds for the independent developer? If they are, you can quickly and easily restore them. Search for the file s.

Try to recall the name of one of the files, and search for it using Windows Search or the Command Prompt. If the file was moved to a different folder, you might find it there.

This may also lead you to understand what happened and locate other files as well. Check File History. Check OneDrive. Try file recovery. Regardless of whether you agree with me or not, you need to protect yourself, and the easiest way is simply to move the files elsewhere once downloaded.

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Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 4. It may still exist in other tools, however. N assumed it was win I have never had this issue myself. I usually end up having to clear out the Downloads folder myself, so I am not missing anything current that i may have downloaded. You mention that the option is being removed in a future version. The option to cleanup the downloads folder or to NOT delete the downloads folder? BTW, I did have a subdirectory inside my downloads folder deleted by disk cleanup once.

Lesson learned. Another option. This also applies if you are using a download manager. Excellent suggestions. I downloaded the user manual for my new cell phone to the download folder. It was there for less than a week before it was gone. I found it in my setup folder where I keep the installation files for the apps on my computer. Good to know even if it is thirty five years or so late. Maybe some of them are still on my computer and nobody knows where Microsoft put them.

It will find ,as its name implies, Everything even deleted files. It has many other options for searching. Hope this will help. I never had any idea there was any danger. C likes this. Gingerbread Oct 20, MathewVadakkel , C , Daksh Doi and 2 others like this. Eclair Oct 21, Eclair Oct 24, DakshDoi , Oct 24, :. You must log in or sign up to reply here. Show Ignored Content. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. Yes, my password is: Forgot your password?