Hidden sketch? Trying to delete from sketchbook

Development Tools IDE 2.x
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I made an NTP clock with a D1 mini a couple of yours ago off a project on instructables, it has worked great and I wanted to make another one, I went to download the code and it said the file was somewhere on my machine but could not find it??? Is there a way to locate it ? Thanks

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What is the exact message ?

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then when you click on that window it says the file already exists? but I can not find it anywhere?

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Same.

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it must exist but it is not in my Arduino library, so where is it?

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From what the message box reads, presumably the name of .ino file does not match the name of the directory, wherever that might be.

It would seem that the solution is to click the Ok button, allow the IDE to create a folder with the same name as the .ino file, and copy the file there. Then you will know where it is, and what it is called. Problem solved.

And I would willing to place a small wager that the ESP8266_Desktop_Equinox_Clock_North_America(1).ino file is likely to be found in your sketchbook directory in a folder called ESP8266_Desktop_Equinox_Clock_North_America, alongside another .ino file called ESP8266_Desktop_Equinox_Clock_North_America.ino. But it's just a hunch.

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thanks I tried that and it is not there, the first time I used that code window when I made the clock I just clicked the prompt and it loaded the code into the IDE and I remember not seeing it later in the Arduino sketch folder, but it did not matter then the clock was done etc, I have a feeling it is buried deep in some wormhole above my pay grade to find LOL

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Well, I haven't used Windows in a dog's age, but it seems to me that there was a facility within Windows Explorer to search for a file by name. Perhaps that would be a good place to start.

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thanks Ill try that

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this was the original project https://www.instructables.com/Desktop-Equinox-Clock/

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The error that you are not posting? I give. Where?

You could also use FILE >> OPEN >> to see the directory of sketches.

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I did that it is not found in the search

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If you can actually open the sketch in the IDE then you can use Sketch/ShowSketch Folder and the folder where the sketch is stored will open in File Explorer

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Thanks

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