OE mail storage and hidden contents of IE temporary internet files

[Dora Smith]

I'm trying again with this. In my previous effort I specified only in my
subject
line that my mail is outlook express, leaving someone who
identified himself as connected to an Episcopal church to get hopelesssly
confused by what my question has to do with Outlook Express.

I am trying to figure out the strange structure and contents of my Temporary
Internet files.

I have entire sets of Temporary Internet files in two places. Alone, in
eht Windows folder, and again in the Temporary folder. I do not know when
the Temporary folder acquired its own set of Temporary internet files.
There was not always a second set of Temporary Internet files in the Windows
Temporary folder.

Both sets of Temporary Internet files contain four folders each - with
different sets of nonsensical strings for names. All folders display
identical lists of cookies; 249 of them in each. Each cookie is 1 K in
size.

OK, here is what the properties tell me is in the folders.

Temp Itnernet 29.8 MB, 43,281 files, 5 folders. displays 249 cookies.
IE 5.5whatever 29.8 MB 43,280 files displays 249 cookies
654hcpm1 5.49 MB 9,716 files displays 249 cookies.
MTUTCVIR 7.78 MB 11,760 files displays 249 cookies
Oprqrstuv 9.63 MB 10,766 files displays 249 cookies
St04ef7z 6.00 MB 11,036 files displays 249 cookies

Temp Folder
Temporary Internet 5 folders 12 files 55.9 KB Displays no files;
only a folder
Content IE 5.5 559 KB 126 Files 4 folders Displays 249
cookies
Ot23mnyh 20.0 KB 8 files
displays 249 cookies
14mwu7sk 3.57 Kb 106 files
displays 249 cookies
Twaz8mzl 153 bytes 7 files
displays 249 cookies
WCpinf63 110 bytes 3 files
displays 249 cookies

You can see that quite a bit is clearly stored in these folders that does
not
display. I checked to make sure that all file types display; no files
types are
not displayed.

I just installed AVG antivirus, and when I ran it, it searched the contents
of all of those files, one by one.
Names of stuff that looks like contents of my OE mail folders kept flashing
by.
As well as possible Internet pages I viewed eons ago and have LONG since
been deleted from my temporary interent folders, which, as you can see,
today contain only cookies.

My OE mail is supposed to store in the mail folder on a separate internal
hard
drive. And in that folder, one finds dbx files sized from 59 Kb to 13.4 Mb
proportionate to the actual amount of e-mail stored in each folder.
It says it contains a total of 84 Mb, which given that the hard drive is
only 1.5 Gig, seems unlikely.

Two log files are particularly large; SMTP log at 5.5 Mb, and POP3 log at
37.3 Mb.

If those logs have logged every e-mail I've ever gotten regardless of
whether they still exist, is there some way to trim them?

Are e-mails also stored in or do they have something to do with the size of
the Temporary Interent files?

Does OE mail get into my temporary e-mails as I view each one, and get
permanently stored there invisibly, and as a separate file from the one
stored in the mail folder, and sit there forever, impervious to dumping or
deleting cached internet pages?

If not, what explains the size of the temporary interent files?

 

[Chuck Davis]

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying again with this. In my previous effort I specified only in my
subject
line that my mail is outlook express, leaving someone who
identified himself as connected to an Episcopal church to get hopelesssly
confused by what my question has to do with Outlook Express.

I am trying to figure out the strange structure and contents of my Temporary
Internet files.

I have entire sets of Temporary Internet files in two places. Alone, in
eht Windows folder, and again in the Temporary folder. I do not know when
the Temporary folder acquired its own set of Temporary internet files.
There was not always a second set of Temporary Internet files in the Windows
Temporary folder.

Both sets of Temporary Internet files contain four folders each - with
different sets of nonsensical strings for names. All folders display
identical lists of cookies; 249 of them in each. Each cookie is 1 K in
size.

OK, here is what the properties tell me is in the folders.

Temp Itnernet 29.8 MB, 43,281 files, 5 folders. displays 249 cookies.
IE 5.5whatever 29.8 MB 43,280 files displays 249 cookies
654hcpm1 5.49 MB 9,716 files displays 249 cookies.
MTUTCVIR 7.78 MB 11,760 files displays 249 cookies
Oprqrstuv 9.63 MB 10,766 files displays 249 cookies
St04ef7z 6.00 MB 11,036 files displays 249 cookies

Temp Folder
Temporary Internet 5 folders 12 files 55.9 KB Displays no files;
only a folder
Content IE 5.5 559 KB 126 Files 4 folders Displays 249
cookies
Ot23mnyh 20.0 KB 8 files
displays 249 cookies
14mwu7sk 3.57 Kb 106 files
displays 249 cookies
Twaz8mzl 153 bytes 7 files
displays 249 cookies
WCpinf63 110 bytes 3 files
displays 249 cookies

You can see that quite a bit is clearly stored in these folders that does
not
display. I checked to make sure that all file types display; no files
types are
not displayed.

I just installed AVG antivirus, and when I ran it, it searched the contents
of all of those files, one by one.
Names of stuff that looks like contents of my OE mail folders kept flashing
by.
As well as possible Internet pages I viewed eons ago and have LONG since
been deleted from my temporary interent folders, which, as you can see,
today contain only cookies.

My OE mail is supposed to store in the mail folder on a separate internal
hard
drive. And in that folder, one finds dbx files sized from 59 Kb to 13.4 Mb
proportionate to the actual amount of e-mail stored in each folder.
It says it contains a total of 84 Mb, which given that the hard drive is
only 1.5 Gig, seems unlikely.

Two log files are particularly large; SMTP log at 5.5 Mb, and POP3 log at
37.3 Mb.

If those logs have logged every e-mail I've ever gotten regardless of
whether they still exist, is there some way to trim them?

Are e-mails also stored in or do they have something to do with the size of
the Temporary Interent files?

Does OE mail get into my temporary e-mails as I view each one, and get
permanently stored there invisibly, and as a separate file from the one
stored in the mail folder, and sit there forever, impervious to dumping or
deleting cached internet pages?

If not, what explains the size of the temporary interent files?


--
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)


.

Dora

Outlook Express is not a part of MS Office. It is a part of
the operating system, specifically Internet Explorer. Your
chances of getting a good answer will be improved where the
Outlook Express gurus hang out:
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm trying again with this. In my previous effort I specified only
in my subject
line that my mail is outlook express, leaving someone who
identified himself as connected to an Episcopal church to get
hopelesssly confused by what my question has to do with Outlook
Express.

Regretfully, you're the confused one. You posted an Outlook Express
question in an Office Outlook newsgroup. Outlook and Outlook Express are
two completely different products.

 

[Dora Smith]

Title just says Outlook. It does not say, MS Office. This is what came up
when I searched under Outlook.

What specific newsgroups deal with OE?

--
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)

-----Original Message-----
I'm trying again with this. In my previous effort I specified only in my
subject
line that my mail is outlook express, leaving someone who
identified himself as connected to an Episcopal church to get hopelesssly
confused by what my question has to do with Outlook Express.

I am trying to figure out the strange structure and contents of my Temporary
Internet files.

I have entire sets of Temporary Internet files in two places. Alone, in
eht Windows folder, and again in the Temporary folder. I do not know when
the Temporary folder acquired its own set of Temporary internet files.
There was not always a second set of Temporary Internet files in the Windows
Temporary folder.

Both sets of Temporary Internet files contain four folders each - with
different sets of nonsensical strings for names. All folders display
identical lists of cookies; 249 of them in each. Each cookie is 1 K in
size.

OK, here is what the properties tell me is in the folders.

Temp Itnernet 29.8 MB, 43,281 files, 5 folders. displays 249 cookies.
IE 5.5whatever 29.8 MB 43,280 files displays 249 cookies
654hcpm1 5.49 MB 9,716 files displays 249 cookies.
MTUTCVIR 7.78 MB 11,760 files displays 249 cookies
Oprqrstuv 9.63 MB 10,766 files displays 249 cookies
St04ef7z 6.00 MB 11,036 files displays 249 cookies

Temp Folder
Temporary Internet 5 folders 12 files 55.9 KB Displays no files;
only a folder
Content IE 5.5 559 KB 126 Files 4 folders Displays 249
cookies
Ot23mnyh 20.0 KB 8 files
displays 249 cookies
14mwu7sk 3.57 Kb 106 files
displays 249 cookies
Twaz8mzl 153 bytes 7 files
displays 249 cookies
WCpinf63 110 bytes 3 files
displays 249 cookies

You can see that quite a bit is clearly stored in these folders that does
not
display. I checked to make sure that all file types display; no files
types are
not displayed.

I just installed AVG antivirus, and when I ran it, it searched the contents
of all of those files, one by one.
Names of stuff that looks like contents of my OE mail folders kept flashing
by.
As well as possible Internet pages I viewed eons ago and have LONG since
been deleted from my temporary interent folders, which, as you can see,
today contain only cookies.

My OE mail is supposed to store in the mail folder on a separate internal
hard
drive. And in that folder, one finds dbx files sized from 59 Kb to 13.4 Mb
proportionate to the actual amount of e-mail stored in each folder.
It says it contains a total of 84 Mb, which given that the hard drive is
only 1.5 Gig, seems unlikely.

Two log files are particularly large; SMTP log at 5.5 Mb, and POP3 log at
37.3 Mb.

If those logs have logged every e-mail I've ever gotten regardless of
whether they still exist, is there some way to trim them?

Are e-mails also stored in or do they have something to do with the size of
the Temporary Interent files?

Does OE mail get into my temporary e-mails as I view each one, and get
permanently stored there invisibly, and as a separate file from the one
stored in the mail folder, and sit there forever, impervious to dumping or
deleting cached internet pages?

If not, what explains the size of the temporary interent files?


--
Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)


.

Dora

Outlook Express is not a part of MS Office. It is a part of
the operating system, specifically Internet Explorer. Your
chances of getting a good answer will be improved where the
Outlook Express gurus hang out:
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp?icp=InternetExplorer

 

[Dora Smith]

Well, atleast you are mentally clear enough to address what I asked!

But how do I search to get newsgoups that are for OE instead of Outlook?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Title just says Outlook. It does not say, MS Office. This is what
came up when I searched under Outlook.

What specific newsgroups deal with OE?

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie55.outlookexpress
for your version of Outlook Express.

 

[Brian Tillman]

But how do I search to get newsgoups that are for OE instead of
Outlook?

Since I can see you're using Outlok Express V5.5 to read this group, click
the Newsgroups button in the toolbar and enter "express" in the "Display
newsgroups which contain" box. You'll all the Outlook Express newsgroups
hosted by your newsserver.