Delete files that I download via Firefox themselves

Twice now, I downloaded files to work on through firefox. The first time I downloaded an excel file, worked on it for several hours, saved and then found that it has been completely erased from my hard drive with no record that there is such a file. The second time it happened it was a word document in which the same thing happened. The files do not either to show in my firefox download history. I need to know if there is a way to recover these files.

Do you have download you and saved the files or you open in an application (Excel)?

In the case of the latter files are saved in the folder Windows folder and the files in this folder can be removed at any time, so if they aren't here anymore then it happened.

If you saved the file then your antivirus or other cleaning or security software may have removed their.

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