Video Files of our trip

[wongwinwongwin]

I just come back from our anniversary trip with my wife. However, I discover that I lost my small bag, which contained a SD card and a usb external flash drive of the recorded video. I think I've left the bag in the bus.

In the hotel, I directly "CUT and PASTE" our video files from the SD Card to the USB exteral flash drive without saving the files into my portable computer (Window XP) (because of not enough space over internal harddisc).

Now, I have the following question.

1. Was it possible that during the process of "Cut and Paste" from SD card to USB exteranl flash drive, there were some video files left behind in my portable computer, so I can recover them now?

2. By means of the USB exteral flash drive, we watched the video through Quicktime in the hotel. Was it possible that Quicktime has cached the video files somewhere in the computer so I can recover them now?

Grateful for your help

[lowellriggsiam]

You might get lucky and be able to undelete them, assuming nothing was written over the area containging the data.

[jman98]

1. I do not know exactly how XP would do a file copy from an SD card to a USB flash drive, but there is no reason for the files to pass through the PC disk drive to do this job. In fact, doing that would actually be stupid for the operating system. The devices should establish a direct connection for the copy that has nothing to do with the internal hard disk. I would not expect you to find the video files on your PC because of this copy.
2. Someone who knows how Quicktime works will have to answer this question. But most likely the answer is "no" because if you didn't have enough space on the hard disk to copy the files, Quicktime would not have enough disk space to cache it either. Plus I don't think there is any reason for Quicktime to cache something when playing from an attached device. Caching occurs when you play a file from the internet because you don't have a copy on your PC or on an attached device.

Remember, you said that you didn't copy the files to your PC because there was not enough disk space. Doing a device to device copy or watching with Quicktime does not magically make extra disk space for your video.

[wongwinwongwin]

Thank you for all your help.

Any other comments?

Cheers