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July 2, 2018
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Finding a lost file by a color or a word

  • July 2, 2018
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I've lost a .ai file somewhere on my hard drive or iCloud drive. I've tried everything I can think of to find it via its name, or when it was created, which was years ago. Is there a way to search using the contents of the file? I found it embedded as a jpeg in a Word document, so I know some of the words it contains, and roughly what colors it contains.

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    Correct answer Mylenium

    You can search the file content using your operating system's means. It just will take forever and depending how the text was created, it may not provide a parseable text string. So if you converted those texts to outlines and AI didn't store the original text input you're out of luck.

    Mylenium

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    July 2, 2018

    You can search the file content using your operating system's means. It just will take forever and depending how the text was created, it may not provide a parseable text string. So if you converted those texts to outlines and AI didn't store the original text input you're out of luck.

    Mylenium

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