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Can I delete these files?
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I ran Secunia PSI and it found an obsolete Adobe Shockwave Player_10.4.1.35 that should be removed. I searched the machine and and found an active Adobe Shockwave Player_11.6. but Secunia insists that I get rid of the old one. Actually a diligent search found no such old program on the machine, it was replaced by the newer version long ago. I used Agent Ransack to find occurances of "10.4.1.35". To my mild surprise It found a dozen or more. They are all located in files like this one: - C:\Doc&Set\MyName\AppData\Adobe\AIR|CRLCache\8E1FF ...and so on for maybe twenty digits and ending with an extension dot crl. - Besides a few dollars tucked away somewhere, just what is a cache anyway? I don't really care to get rid of a non-existant obsolete shockwave player, but I don't want to disappoint Secunia either. :-) Some of these files have rather recent date stamps, a couple of weeks or months old. Most are much older. As far as I know, none have caused me any problems. Can I safely leave these files alone, or do you recommend deleting the entire mess? thanks -- Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), FL dele XXX |
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Can I delete these files?
Jackson wrote:
XP MCE I ran Secunia PSI and it found an obsolete Adobe Shockwave Player_10.4.1.35 that should be removed. I searched the machine and and found an active Adobe Shockwave Player_11.6. but Secunia insists that I get rid of the old one. Actually a diligent search found no such old program on the machine, it was replaced by the newer version long ago. I used Agent Ransack to find occurances of "10.4.1.35". To my mild surprise It found a dozen or more. They are all located in files like this one: - C:\Doc&Set\MyName\AppData\Adobe\AIR|CRLCache\8E1FF ...and so on for maybe twenty digits and ending with an extension dot crl. - Besides a few dollars tucked away somewhere, just what is a cache anyway? I don't really care to get rid of a non-existant obsolete shockwave player, but I don't want to disappoint Secunia either. :-) Some of these files have rather recent date stamps, a couple of weeks or months old. Most are much older. As far as I know, none have caused me any problems. Can I safely leave these files alone, or do you recommend deleting the entire mess? thanks I consider anything Adobe to be spyware. The higher the version number, the more intrusive. Delete the cache files but don't empty the trash can and see what happens. This is from Adobe's web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features.html "Flash Player cache Reduce SWF file sizes and speed up app download times by building apps with common platform components, such as the open source Flex framework. Flash Player enables common components to be cached locally and then used by any SWF file from any domain." |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote in
: snip This is from Adobe's web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features.html "Flash Player cache Reduce SWF file sizes and speed up app download times by building apps with common platform components, such as the open source Flex framework. Flash Player enables common components to be cached locally and then used by any SWF file from any domain." That doesn't sound THAT bad, considering the flash curse 'in toto', but you should take a look at the directory where Flash leaves its record of every single site you ever visited and watched fla**** on. XHamster and Motherless dutifully logged, just like Britannica and PBS, of course. (I do not frequent any of these four, in case you care ;-) -- What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'? Friedrich Nietzsche |
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In message , Jackson
writes: [] Besides a few dollars tucked away somewhere, just what is a cache anyway? [] Well, it's the same idea; a cache is somewhere handy you put things. Outside computing, its existence may be secret, though not always. In computing, it has come to mean a store for things that is easier (by which is usually meant, faster) to access than their original location. For example, when you look at a web page, your browser stores it in its cache, so that if you look at that page again, it fetches it from the cache rather than from the internet again (I'm not sure how it knows whether the internet version has changed: I'm guessing it just gets the datestamp of the internet version, and if that's newer than the cached version, it gets a new copy [and overwrites the cached copy with it]). In this case, the cache is just a folder on your disc. When your processor fetches code from disc or general RAM, it often puts the current part into faster RAM, so that if it has to repeat a section of code, it can fetch it faster - this has now got to the stage of cache being in several levels, with level 1 (and possibly level 2, I'm out of touch) cache RAM actually being on the processor chip itself these days. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Bother," said Pooh, as Windows crashed for the umpteenth time. |
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:18:13 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: In message , Jackson writes: [] Besides a few dollars tucked away somewhere, just what is a cache anyway? [] Well, it's the same idea; a cache is somewhere handy you put things. Outside computing, its existence may be secret, though not always. In computing, it has come to mean a store for things that is easier (by which is usually meant, faster) to access than their original location. For example, when you look at a web page, your browser stores it in its cache, so that if you look at that page again, it fetches it from the cache rather than from the internet again (I'm not sure how it knows whether the internet version has changed: I'm guessing it just gets the datestamp of the internet version, and if that's newer than the cached version, it gets a new copy [and overwrites the cached copy with it]). In this case, the cache is just a folder on your disc. When your processor fetches code from disc or general RAM, it often puts the current part into faster RAM, so that if it has to repeat a section of code, it can fetch it faster - this has now got to the stage of cache being in several levels, with level 1 (and possibly level 2, I'm out of touch) cache RAM actually being on the processor chip itself these days. Thanks for the lesson. If I understand it correctly those mysterious files with interminable names serve mainly to speed up presentation of a web page. -- Jack from Taxacola (formerly Pensacola), FL dele XXX |
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