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Thread ID: 18973	2002-05-06 06:15:00	Temp Internet Directory Revisited	Guest (0)	Press F1

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47402	2002-05-06 20:40:00	When I get a chance, I am going to try that one Tweak'e mentioned and see what happens. Maybe even the spider of Susan's. I am at 12Mb and holding. I have only been to Trademe once, F1 a lot, Googled for somewhere that went to Amazon. I am sure I haven't downloaded 12Mb in that piddly bit of surfing. We'll see if it busts it disk limit. It's not the space that is the problem, I can handle the space. It's the vast number of files that cause grief. (207 already) robo.	Guest (0)
47403	2002-05-08 03:22:00	It seems to me that IE and Windows do some cheating in the way the data in T.I.D. is displayed. BTW I am using NT4 for these views so may different on other WINxxx. Also I have set my options to view both System and Hidden files (otherwise you miss the interesting bits ;-). You get different views of the data if you view it from: a) Within IE using the Options path. This by the way is the safest way to delete cookies etc as it knows how they are actually stored and you can delete individual cookies selectively. b) Using Windows Explorer. This gives a different view and if you look at Properties of T.I.D. It will tell you a total number of files etc. But unlike a 'normal' directory folder the TID does not display the total files and space on the Staus Bar. This again implies it is 'special' in some way. c) From DOS prompt you get yet another view which is probably much closer to the actual Stored Files only some of the files are Hidden and some are System so you may need several passes with DIR /A:H and /A:S to see all the detail you need d) Use the 'old' WINFILE file manager if you have it (probably in %system%\System32) This too looks at the File structure and does not know about 'special' folders. I conclude that IE has a 'database' that it keeps much of the TID stuff in so the fragmentation should not be a serious problem. likewise the looks for cached objects and cookies etc is probably done using a fairly fast in memeory index method so it is probably worth allowing IE to keep a total cache that is roughy 50% to 200% of your RAM size on disk. Much more than that would probably be wasteful.	Guest (0)
47404	2002-05-10 22:22:00	If you want to see all the visuals that you've been carefully saving, 'Irfanview' will show you, Free app from http://www.irfanview.com goto file/thumbnails and browse to your extensive collections...could be interesting!	Guest (0)
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