Restore js file with chrome cache

Question

I accidentally deleted a HTML file with dreamweaver. I really would like to get this file back, my backup was not ok. So I would like to retrieve the file using the cache of my browser Chrome. I Googled and found this: LINK But it doesnt work for me, when I download the file and look at it in Notepad all I see is strange characters.

What else can I try to get my file back with Chrome cache?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 24 '15 at 16:28

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NirSoft's ChromeCacheView worked perfectly for me.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html

Note that the option to restore the actual files is not that obvious. F4 does it.

answered Jul 24 '15 at 16:28

Ben Osborne

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Thank you for including the F4 instruction, that's very helpful. – Tristan Reid Jul 24 '15 at 16:58

zxcmehran · Answer 2 · 2015-10-17T17:20:52.180

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It would not be easily extractable from it's hexadecimal representation.

I have recently created a script for extracting files from Chrome and Firefox cache. Check it out at this gist.

See the usage guide in this post.

edited Oct 17 '15 at 17:20

answered Oct 17 '15 at 16:45

zxcmehran

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This saved my day after a huge js file upload failed with zero bytes, no FileZilla and NotepaddPP histories. Thank you. – Ajowi Jan 10 '20 at 13:29

mnme · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-04T08:50:28.070

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What you download on this site is a gzip file, if you open that in notepad you will get much the same as on the chrome://cache site. You need to extract it with 7zip or a similar tool first.

edited Apr 04 '13 at 08:50

answered Apr 04 '13 at 08:43

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Sorry its actually a html file, I will change this in question – Youss Apr 04 '13 at 08:45
I will change my answer then – mnme Apr 04 '13 at 08:48
Are you sure? 7zip tells me "cant open fileblablaba as archive" even though I just want to unzip it, which has nothing to do with archiving. Maybe Im passing the wrong urls somehow..? – Youss Apr 04 '13 at 09:41
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i made it like this (and it worked): 1. copy all text from a file in chrome cache 2. paste it on the website you linked 3. download the something.html.gz file 4. right-click -> 7zip -> extract file here – mnme Apr 04 '13 at 10:02
Didn't work, it just freezes. I tried a link of a js file and that one worked. So I think the problem is the difference in url. I can't make sense of the urls, so I don't know which one to open. Anyway I will look at it when Im home. Thanks for your answer, did not know they are zipped:) – Youss Apr 04 '13 at 11:04

Restore js file with chrome cache

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