Can I delete these files?

[Jackson]

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

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

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."

 

[thanatoid]

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 flashit 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 ;-)



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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

 

[Jackson]

In message <[email protected]>, Jackson

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.