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Mike Lombardi
QA engineer, head of automated software testing department. Knowledge of Java, C/C++, JSP, HTML, XML, JavaScript, SQL and Oracle PL/SQL. Journalist and columnist in the IT field. Website creator and administrator.
Question to the Expert
I found an interesting page in Google Chrome, read it, and closed it. I wanted to visit that page again, but the site is down. Is there any chance of retrieving the lost information when I view the cache in Chrome? I use this browser on my Windows 10 PC.
Browser cache is a repository in which data about visited pages remains. If some information about a web page is stored in your device's memory, that site will load faster the next time. You can retrieve information from the storage if:
- the information got into the cache (page data is stored selectively),
- the cache has never been cleared since the last time you accessed the page.
On Windows 10 computers, to get to the Chrome cache, press Win + R, type or paste %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache in the Run window and click OK.
After that, you will see a list of cache files with names in alphanumeric code. The files cannot be opened using standard Windows applications, only third-party programs can do it. To view the Chrome cache on your Windows 10 computer, you can install the ChromeCacheView program.
The process of searching the browser storage takes a lot of time and does not always yield results. If you don’t want to lose information, next time save an offline version of the page on your computer (Ctrl+S).
