Corrupted TIF?

[Bill in Co.]

It's happened again. I wonder if anyone else has ever noticed this issue?

Symptoms (one example of a potentially corrupted TIF):
(TIF = Temporary Internet Files)

In IE (I'm using IE6), select Tools, Internet Options, Temporary Internet
Files, Settings, View Files, and "recently" you find only a hundred or so
objects listed in there, where it previously showed THOUSANDS of objects!).
This apparently happens after visiting some sites (and not just
spontaneously on its own. For example, I could get it to happen after
visiting the wikipedia site enough times).

BUT yet when you look in Windows Explorer under Documents and Settings,
<user name>, Local Settings, Temporary Internet Files, you still see it
still lists thousands of files in there, so the TIF files ARE still there on
the HD. So: either the TIF's index.dat file is corrupted, or IE's View
option has "lost it" and can't see what's really there anymore. (and the
only way to get that to work right again is to delete the TIF and index.dat
and start over with a clean TIF)

Anybody else ever noticed this behavior? It happened to me on occasion
in Win98SE with IE6 too, so it is NOT tied into the specific operating
system, or the version of IE6 being used.

Why can this be a problem? Well, if you are relying on the TIF's cache to
be working as expected, it isn't doing so anymore (assuming index.dat is
corrupted and the issue is not simply with the viewer in IE).

 

[Billy Buddusky]

It's happened again. I wonder if anyone else has ever noticed this issue?

Symptoms (one example of a potentially corrupted TIF):
(TIF = Temporary Internet Files)

In IE (I'm using IE6),

I think things like this ONLY happen to folks who hang on to old
versions of programs that the rest of the universe has abandoned, who
like to constantly image their system so they can jump under the hood
and play and then restore from that image - often more than once daily
- and who don't like to update their software.

Sound familiar?

 

[Bill in Co.]

I think things like this ONLY happen to folks who hang on to old
versions of programs that the rest of the universe has abandoned, who
like to constantly image their system so they can jump under the hood
and play and then restore from that image - often more than once daily
- and who don't like to update their software.

Sound familiar?

That you thought wrong about this? Not really, but if you insist.