Modem Ani said:
I selected 'Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed',
and most of the time TIF really is emptied (except for cookies, of course.)
However, every now and then I find a handful of assorted file types, usually
jpegs and gifs, lingering in TIF. I can't say how often this happens or
under what circumstances - I don't look at my TIF folder that often.
It's not any big deal to me, I'm just wondering: Is this a shortcoming of
IE, or could I be doing something to cause this behavior?
Modem Ani
This is a feature that I have never used but am curious about the
implementation. It sounds as if it trundles through the list of files
in the TIF viewer rather than clearing the TIF folders. That list probably
would be determined by the current contents of Content.IE5\index.dat
To blackbox test that idea the sorts of things that I would try would be:
1. open the TIF viewer and leave it open when you are closing all your
IE windows and then Refresh it once the deletions are done.
(This assumes that an Explorer view of the TIF would not affect that operation.)
2. in conjunction with 1. you could also save the TIF's index.dat
and then do a before and after comparison of these two files:
find /i "http://" index.dat.sav >oldtif.txt
find /i "http://" index.dat >cleantif.txt
BTW such lists would only be approximations of the TIF viewer's
lists because of the possibility of different protocol prefixes.
The value of them would also depend on how many of the items
listed would be spurious due to residual data in the files.
E.g. if a deletion doesn't clear the URL field of the entry at all
the comparison would be worthless, since the files then
would potentially be identical from the perspective of our lists.
I just remembered a utility called CacheMon2 (by David Pochron
author of CacheSentry) which would be an ideal alternative or
supplement to 2. Then you could keep two copies of it open,
one for your before view and the other for your after view.
However, I'm not sure if it tries to list based only on the TIF's
index.dat or whether it lists the physical files and then tries
to match them up with URLs in the TIF. I suspect just the former
but I know that in CacheSentry he is interested in what he calls
"strays" so perhaps some might be listed without any URL
association.
3. find out what is left in the TIF physically after the operation.
One way would be by using AutoComplete in the Address bar
starting at ...Content.IE5\ but dir/s >tifleft.txt would allow you
to capture it.
4. monitor all of the above with FileMon, filtering on Temporary Internet Files
Etc.
FWIW
Robert Aldwinckle
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