i lost my E:\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ dir ???

[ms_dude]

i am experiencing a weird problem with IE6 on XP Pro x86 ... when i access
internet content that requires temporary storage in the Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\ dir i get errors ... i did a search for the Content.IE5
dir and found it, it is there but for some reason temp files such as when i
stream media can not be found ... the error i get is as follows:

E:\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\WHUNKXQR\filename.mp4
Application not found

any ideas?

thank you!

 

[Mike Flanagan]

as far as i am aware the Tempory Internet Files folder is within the windows
folder on the drive/partition that windows is installed on ie.
C:\windows\temp\Temporary Internet Files.

 

[Mikie]

Just a thought: Go to Internet Explorer, click on TOOLS, slide down to
INTERNET OPTIONS and then click DLETE FILES where it shows Temporary
Internet Files. Delete Offline and Online.
Maybe you are impacted with too many files?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

as far as i am aware the Tempory Internet Files folder is within the
windows folder on the drive/partition that windows is installed on
ie. C:\windows\temp\Temporary Internet Files.

Not in WinXP. It's in the User Profile.

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[Mike Flanagan]

Thanks for the correction ..........

Not in WinXP. It's in the User Profile.

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[kaream]

i am experiencing a weird problem with IE6 on XP Pro x86 ... when i access
internet content that requires temporary storage in the Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\ dir i get errors ... i did a search for the Content.IE5
dir and found it, it is there but for some reason temp files such as when i
stream media can not be found ... the error i get is as follows:

E:\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\WHUNKXQR\filename.mp4
Application not found

any ideas?

thank you!

You didn't specify, but I'm guessing that your setup has more than one
user logon. The problem is that any user can search for and find any
*OTHER* user's Content.IE5 folder and subfolders, but *not their own*,
without a bit of prestidigitation. See for instance
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...general/browse_thread/thread/8aa54dbc5bd5f257
or the discussion at
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ewusers/browse_thread/thread/9719957fdc1c7616

It sounds as though you're trying to find a file rather than deleting
it; the first discussion above explains how to do this.

And yes, the Temp folder has nothing to do with the Temporary Internet
Files (TIF) folder.

 

[Ron Martell]

i am experiencing a weird problem with IE6 on XP Pro x86 ... when i access
internet content that requires temporary storage in the Temporary Internet
Files\Content.IE5\ dir i get errors ... i did a search for the Content.IE5
dir and found it, it is there but for some reason temp files such as when i
stream media can not be found ... the error i get is as follows:

E:\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\WHUNKXQR\filename.mp4
Application not found

any ideas?

thank you!

Open Control Panel - Internet Options and click on the Settings button
in the Temporary Internet Files (middle) section. What does it say
there for the current location of the Temporary Internet Files? Use
the Move Folder button to change the location. Hint: If the
displayed location appears to be correct then change it (temporarily)
to somewhere else. Reboot the computer and change it back again.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

 

[kaream]

Ron, I'm not sure what your suggestion to temporarily move the TIF
folder ought to accomplish. Before moving this folder, I looked at the
folder (using Windows Explorer / My Computer) in its proper location of
C: \ Documents and Settings \ [myname] \ Local Settings \ Temporary
Internet Files, and found 470 small files (which I've been referring to
elsewhere, perhaps incorrectly, as "cookies"), but no Content.IE5
subfolder or its randomly-named sub-subfolders -- just as I always
find. Next, following your suggestion, I opened Control Panel |
Internet Options | Settings, and first clicked View Files. This
displayed the same 470 small files, and again no Content.IE5 subfolder.
I then moved the TIF folder to a 2nd harddrive (which forced an
automatic reboot), and following the reboot looked at the folder in its
new location. Again, the same 470 small files (cookies?), and no
subfolders. So moving the TIF folder, so far as I can tell, didn't
display anything at all that wasn't already visible to me in its proper
location.

However, if instead of moving anything I simply go to My Computer and
rightclick on Drive C:, then choose Properties | Disk Cleanup, then
highlight Temporary Internet Files, and choose View Files, a new window
is opened that displays Content.IE5 with all of its randomly-named
subfolders which contain the actual data files that have been captured
by Internet Explorer. If I'm looking for a particular file, as opposed
to just wanting to clean out the TIF folder by deleting these files,
this seems the simplest way to approach the problem.

If fact, unless there is another logon name set up on the computer,
this is the ONLY way I know of to see Content.IE5 and its internet data
files. If a computer *does* have more than one logon set up, then you
can logon as User2 to view User1's Content.IE5, and vice versa. See,
e.g.,
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...general/browse_thread/thread/8aa54dbc5bd5f257
(where "User1" was unfortunately designated "Alice" and "User2" as
"Bob", to much extraneous hilarity).

 

[Ron Martell]

Ron, I'm not sure what your suggestion to temporarily move the TIF
folder ought to accomplish. Before moving this folder, I looked at the
folder (using Windows Explorer / My Computer) in its proper location of
C: \ Documents and Settings \ [myname] \ Local Settings \ Temporary
Internet Files, and found 470 small files (which I've been referring to
elsewhere, perhaps incorrectly, as "cookies"), but no Content.IE5
subfolder or its randomly-named sub-subfolders -- just as I always
find. Next, following your suggestion, I opened Control Panel |
Internet Options | Settings, and first clicked View Files. This
displayed the same 470 small files, and again no Content.IE5 subfolder.
I then moved the TIF folder to a 2nd harddrive (which forced an
automatic reboot), and following the reboot looked at the folder in its
new location. Again, the same 470 small files (cookies?), and no
subfolders. So moving the TIF folder, so far as I can tell, didn't
display anything at all that wasn't already visible to me in its proper
location.

My thinking was that if a wonky registry entry was the cause of your
problems then this change would force a couple of rewrites of these
entries, thereby hopefully correcting the problem.


Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada