Mysteriously cached images

[Wowbagger]

I just created an email in Outlook 2003 (XP Pro box) that has a couple of
attached photos (.jpg). I double-clicked on one of the attached photos
which opened in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and was using the
forward/back arrows to scroll through the attachments. Then photos started
to appear that are no longer on my system: I have searched my local and all
network drives for these filenames and they do not appear anywhere.

Does anybody know where these extra images would be hiding, and why the
system search can not find them?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I just created an email in Outlook 2003 (XP Pro box) that has a
couple of attached photos (.jpg). I double-clicked on one of the
attached photos which opened in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and
was using the forward/back arrows to scroll through the attachments. Then
photos started to appear that are no longer on my system: I have
searched my local and all network drives for these filenames and they
do not appear anywhere.
Does anybody know where these extra images would be hiding, and why
the system search can not find them?

When you open an attachment, Outlook creates a copy in a folder called the
"Outlook Secure Temp Folder", which is a subfolder of
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files. Windows Explorer
doesn't normally allow you to see these subfolders. The registry key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Security\OutlookSecureTempFolder
will contain the name of this folder. You can also determine the name of
this folder by opening a command prompt window and entering the following
commands:

cd %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
dir /a

You'll see a folder whose name starts with OLK. Let's say it's OLK19. You
can then open that folder in Windows Explorer by entering

%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\OLK19

in the Address field and clicking OK or you can click Start>Run, put that
path in the Open field, and click OK. WIndows Explorer will open and show
that folder. You can then locate the old image files and delete them.