5th January 2005, 1:15 PM
There is another way (I just held shift for a while while typing this and for some retarded reason it decided that meant I clicked the edit button for LL's post).
Simply put, every single page, every single item you ever see online is downloaded first. You can't just view it without your machine downloading it to your hard drive to begin with. This means there is a folder which holds all these internet files. This is the temporary internet folder. I'm not sure what it's called for Netscape, probably cache or something, but it's there. In other words, you don't need to "click to save" because it's technically already on your machine. All you need do is find the pic.
Here's how you do that. Now, I'm not sure if the window is coded to hide the toolbars for your browser of choice, so I'll explain how to get that back just in case. Whatever link you clicked to open the page with that picture on it, right click on it instead. There SHOULD be an option to "copy shortcut", which will store the web address the link or pic points to in your clip board. Open a new window, paste that into the window, and go there. That should get you a fully capable window.
Now that you have that, it's time to open the source code of it for viewing. Now in IE you can simply click on the "view" option at the top and select "source". Netscape should have a similar feature. This will let you view the source code even though this person disabled normal right click functions.
Now that you are in the source code, find the code for the image it's displaying. It should look something like this. [img src="image.jpg"] but with < > instead of [ ] Hopefully the file name is recognizable enough that you can find it. If it's a LOT of code, you can use the "find" option in whatever you are viewing it with to search for .jpg or .gif or .jpeg or whatever the image format is (most likely jpg). Once you find it, copy that name and open up windows search. It's in the start button. Make sure you search for "all files and folders". Now, type in the name of the file there. You MAY need to alter it a bit since browsers can often suffix file names to prevent two files from having the same name in the cache. Use the asterisk before and after the file name. The asterisk is a flag that tells the machine "anything", meaning, it'll look for files with that name and any number and type of characters before and after it (including zero, meaning JUST the file name). (A similar flag is $, which is like anything but it will only search for files with the same number of random characters as the number of $ you put in it. So, $$puppy will yield 11puppy but not 1puppy or 111puppy. While *puppy will yield puppy, 1puppy, 1111111puppy and anything else it finds with puppy at the very end.
Anyway, if you manage to find the file in the cache, just drag it into whatever folder you want and boom, you can easily find it now. If you can't seem to find it, the other option is to do a search for *.jpg for example, but that's messy because you will get every jpg in your cache. An easy way to get around that is to close your browser, clear your cache via browser options, open it, surf to that image, and THEN search for all the jpgs on your machine. That should net you only what you viewed on your way to that page since all other files have been deleted.
Anyway, good luck.
Simply put, every single page, every single item you ever see online is downloaded first. You can't just view it without your machine downloading it to your hard drive to begin with. This means there is a folder which holds all these internet files. This is the temporary internet folder. I'm not sure what it's called for Netscape, probably cache or something, but it's there. In other words, you don't need to "click to save" because it's technically already on your machine. All you need do is find the pic.
Here's how you do that. Now, I'm not sure if the window is coded to hide the toolbars for your browser of choice, so I'll explain how to get that back just in case. Whatever link you clicked to open the page with that picture on it, right click on it instead. There SHOULD be an option to "copy shortcut", which will store the web address the link or pic points to in your clip board. Open a new window, paste that into the window, and go there. That should get you a fully capable window.
Now that you have that, it's time to open the source code of it for viewing. Now in IE you can simply click on the "view" option at the top and select "source". Netscape should have a similar feature. This will let you view the source code even though this person disabled normal right click functions.
Now that you are in the source code, find the code for the image it's displaying. It should look something like this. [img src="image.jpg"] but with < > instead of [ ] Hopefully the file name is recognizable enough that you can find it. If it's a LOT of code, you can use the "find" option in whatever you are viewing it with to search for .jpg or .gif or .jpeg or whatever the image format is (most likely jpg). Once you find it, copy that name and open up windows search. It's in the start button. Make sure you search for "all files and folders". Now, type in the name of the file there. You MAY need to alter it a bit since browsers can often suffix file names to prevent two files from having the same name in the cache. Use the asterisk before and after the file name. The asterisk is a flag that tells the machine "anything", meaning, it'll look for files with that name and any number and type of characters before and after it (including zero, meaning JUST the file name). (A similar flag is $, which is like anything but it will only search for files with the same number of random characters as the number of $ you put in it. So, $$puppy will yield 11puppy but not 1puppy or 111puppy. While *puppy will yield puppy, 1puppy, 1111111puppy and anything else it finds with puppy at the very end.
Anyway, if you manage to find the file in the cache, just drag it into whatever folder you want and boom, you can easily find it now. If you can't seem to find it, the other option is to do a search for *.jpg for example, but that's messy because you will get every jpg in your cache. An easy way to get around that is to close your browser, clear your cache via browser options, open it, surf to that image, and THEN search for all the jpgs on your machine. That should net you only what you viewed on your way to that page since all other files have been deleted.
Anyway, good luck.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)