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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders.
They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
sure - delete them all
"Nightsky" wrote in message ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all
temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote in message ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them,
new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote in message ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely
go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again,
especially on dial-up. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
"Bill in Co." wrote:
I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again, especially on dial-up. Dialup is the only type of access where that might be a consideration. Even with the slowest of DSL plans that would not be anything to worry about. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
But the *OP*, the one that asked the question about their TIF folder, is not on dial-up. Bill in Co. wrote: I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again, especially on dial-up. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
Well, by that logic, why bother even having the TIF? Might as well disable
it completely by that logic, and never cache anything in the TIF. You think that's a good idea? VanguardLH wrote: But the *OP*, the one that asked the question about their TIF folder, is not on dial-up. Bill in Co. wrote: I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again, especially on dial-up. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
"Nightsky" wrote in message
... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? They are the IE browser cache. The entire content.ie5 folder is a subfolder of the "Temporary Internet Files" folder. Note the word "Temporary" in the folder name. Can I delete them safely? Yes, and you should do so. IE doesn't clean up after itself very well, and you likely have the cache set far too high - the default value is sometimes over a gig, and doesn't need to be any more than 25 meg. The free tool ccleaner (www.ccleaner.com) will help you delete these and other temporary files quickly with few steps. HTH -pk Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
Bill
Leaving large numbers of redundant files has a downside. Whenever you run anti-virus and anti-spyware software there are more files to check. The result is that a full scan can take considerably longer. -- Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote in message ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? Nightsky |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
Yep. If you select the option to check for new content on every visit
to a web page, the browser has to find out from the server if its copy of a file is stale compared with the server's copy. Why waste that time rather than just get the file in the first place? After all, you have the speed. In fact, users of IE6/7 would often configure the advanced options to always empty the TIF on exit from IE. They didn't want that stuff hanging around. However, IE would sometimes forget to empty its TIF so cleanup utilities showed up to make sure the TIF got cleaned out. Well, with an empty TIF, the entire web page has to get downloaded on the next visit. High-speed users are not condemned to having to cache anything between browser sessions (and don't need to cache much at all during a browser session). As you noted, you are not in that crowd. Bill in Co. wrote: Well, by that logic, why bother even having the TIF? Might as well disable it completely by that logic, and never cache anything in the TIF. You think that's a good idea? VanguardLH wrote: But the *OP*, the one that asked the question about their TIF folder, is not on dial-up. Bill in Co. wrote: I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again, especially on dial-up. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
VanguardLH wrote:
Yep. If you select the option to check for new content on every visit to a web page, the browser has to find out from the server if its copy of a file is stale compared with the server's copy. Why waste that time rather than just get the file in the first place? After all, you have the speed. Well, no, I don't - I'm on dial-up. (But for the ones who aren't, maybe). My option is set to automatically, and definitely NOT check each time. In fact, users of IE6/7 would often configure the advanced options to always empty the TIF on exit from IE. They didn't want that stuff hanging around. However, IE would sometimes forget to empty its TIF so cleanup utilities showed up to make sure the TIF got cleaned out. Well, with an empty TIF, the entire web page has to get downloaded on the next visit. Which I definitely don't want in my case. High-speed users are not condemned to having to cache anything between browser sessions (and don't need to cache much at all during a browser session). As you noted, you are not in that crowd. Exactly. And quite content with that arrangement. I don't need hi-speed; I have that old school value of patience :-). Bill in Co. wrote: Well, by that logic, why bother even having the TIF? Might as well disable it completely by that logic, and never cache anything in the TIF. You think that's a good idea? VanguardLH wrote: But the *OP*, the one that asked the question about their TIF folder, is not on dial-up. Bill in Co. wrote: I would never do that. It takes too long to build up the TIF cache again, especially on dial-up. VanguardLH wrote: And if you configure IE to empty its TIF folder then they also routinely go away. Bill in Co. wrote: And they are routinely created by IE and OE. So even if you delete them, new ones will keep coming in, anyways. But feel free to do so. :-) GS wrote: the safe way is going to IE, tool-internet options, and clear out all temporary file using the appropriate button there "Nightsky" wrote ... There are more than 53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders. They all have filenames similar to CAZQ2IV5 and various time stamps. What is their purpose? Can I delete them safely? |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 01:46:18 -0600, "Bill in Co."
wrote: VanguardLH wrote: Yep. If you select the option to check for new content on every visit to a web page, the browser has to find out from the server if its copy of a file is stale compared with the server's copy. Why waste that time rather than just get the file in the first place? After all, you have the speed. Well, no, I don't - I'm on dial-up. (But for the ones who aren't, maybe). My option is set to automatically, and definitely NOT check each time. Your choice of course, but with many web sites that can be a big problem. I maintain a site where pages change often. I periodically get complaints from people who are not set to check, and get the old versions again. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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53,000 files of 0 size in my Content IE folders
Bill in Co. wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: Yep. If you select the option to check for new content on every visit to a web page, the browser has to find out from the server if its copy of a file is stale compared with the server's copy. Why waste that time rather than just get the file in the first place? After all, you have the speed. Well, no, I don't - I'm on dial-up. (But for the ones who aren't, maybe). My option is set to automatically, and definitely NOT check each time. Your network setup is not germane to the OP. Suggestions for solutions were directed to the OP. |
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