Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:58:09 -0800
From: David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: W2k IE6: Selectively deleting "Temporary Internet Files"
On 14 Nov 2003 at 16:20, Peetie Wheatstraw wrote:
>> .... Any idea why the 'dir'
>> command returned the 'file not found' message?
>
> "folders" under the "Temporary Internet Files" entry are not real OS-level
>directories -- they're some kind of cache structure that IE knows how to
>manage.
Is this response consistent with the fact that one can use
Win. Explorer (not IE) facilities (larely inadequate for my
purposes) to manage files in, say:
"d:\Documents and settings\Fname Lname
\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
???
I had hoped to set up a .bat file that would periodically
clean most of the garbage out of this directory ...
Cheers,
Peetie
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| Peetie Wheatstraw [log in to unmask] |
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> Hi,
>
> I used W2k Pro Windows Explorer to view my IE6 Temporary
> Internet Files. There were about 30k of them.
>
> Being an old MS DOS kinda guy, I used a command prompt to
> set my directory, something like:
>
> cd "d:\Documents and settings\Fname Lname
> \Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files"
>
> I intended to issue commands like:
>
> del *doubleclick*.*
> del *real*.*
> del *lycos*.*
>
> but when I issued a 'dir' command to see if anything was
> functional, it returned 'file not found'. It was as if
> the dir. with the 30k files was empty (it was not). I
> was able to delete some files with Windows Explorer but
> not by filename components as intended (above).
>
> How does one selectively delete certain Temporary Internet
> Files without wasting beau coup time? Any idea why the 'dir'
> command returned the 'file not found' message?
>
> Thanx,
> Peetie
>
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