Saved web pages

[GDubs]

IE6 is detecting saved web pages on my computer. When I
type in a URL, it's autocompleting a page or two that are
not in my favorites folder.

I have cleared out cookies, temp folders, and all the
obvious offenders. I have tried shutting off autocomplete,
but it continues to load up an older version of the site
I'm trying to access. (And no, hitting refresh doesn't do
the trick either).

Any idea how/where I can find these saved pages?

Greg

 

[Guest]

Temporary Internet Files\content.ie5\*********
********** = an alpha numeric code that I haven't found
the logic in. These folders are Hidden very well, if you
click Start->Run then paste this:
c:\windows\explorer /e,c:\windows\tempor~1\content.ie5\
into the box, you will be able to see these folders(if
your temporary internet files folder is in the c:\window
directory. if not, replace c:\windows with the proper path
to Temporary internet files.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

but it continues to load up an older version of the site

I'm trying to access. (And no, hitting refresh doesn't do the trick either).

It's a bit confusing knowing exactly what it is that you want.
First you write about AutoComplete items and then you
write this. I will assume that this is your real problem and
the rest is just some questions which came up during your
attempts to diagnose it.

FYI that should be Ctrl-F5 that you would be trying for Refresh
but if you had removed the files from the TIF it wouldn't make
any difference because there would be nothing for IE to check with.

Then the only possibility is that they are coming from the server.
However, it might be an intermediate caching server.
IE has no control over that. The best thing to do would be to notify
the owner of the server about the problem so that they could fix it.
Things that you could try would be to enter the request differently
so that it doesn't appear to be the same as the one that is apparently
cached. Two common ideas along that tack that sometimes work
(depending on what the main server does with them) is to append
a question mark (?) to your request or to use the https: protocol
prefix instead. The latter idea requires that the server is listening
to port 443; although you could also override that and try to force
it back to port 80, in which case the main server just needs to be
able to accept requests with that protocol over that port.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle