temp internet files size growth

[- HAL9000]

XP Warriors,

I have set up a special hard disk partition to hold nothing but IE
temporary internet files. The Internet Options settings for the files
is 500 MB. The disk partition is set slightly larger than 500 MB. I
keep getting a systray popup saying to clean up the partition. The
Recycle Bin has been shut off for the partition.

It appears as though the temp internet files is growing without bound
past 500 MB. Is this what is going on or what?

Thanks,
Forrest

 

[steven]

Can I ask why do you want to keep temp int files ?

 

[Lem]

XP Warriors,

I have set up a special hard disk partition to hold nothing but IE
temporary internet files. The Internet Options settings for the files
is 500 MB. The disk partition is set slightly larger than 500 MB. I
keep getting a systray popup saying to clean up the partition. The
Recycle Bin has been shut off for the partition.

It appears as though the temp internet files is growing without bound
past 500 MB. Is this what is going on or what?

Thanks,
Forrest

This is a Bad Idea. Search for a thread with the subject "Temporary
internet files settings ?" posted earlier today. Or, for example, a post
by Alex Nichol with the subject "Re: WHY does my .gif or .jpg files save
as .bitmap??"

 

[- HAL9000]

Sure.

Sometimes I desire to go back and view something I've seen before.
Often it was something I've seen one or two months ago - perhaps
through an old yahoo search. I just go "offline" and look through my
history until I have found it again. Even if the web page has been
changed - I can see and find what I originally saw. With todays hard
disks, 500 MB is nothing for this benefit.

If I was on dialup, another benefit would be obvious - download time
and the general "user experience".

Using a separate partition keeps the fragmentation problem of small
temp internet files away from my other files.

Forrest

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

- HAL9000 wrote:




This is a Bad Idea. Search for a thread with the subject "Temporary
internet files settings ?" posted earlier today. Or, for example, a post
by Alex Nichol with the subject "Re: WHY does my .gif or .jpg files save
as .bitmap??"

why would anyone want more than 10-20 mb for their temp internet files?
IE runs much more efficient with a smaller cache since it has to
search that cache all the time.

 

[- HAL9000]

I think its a great idea myself. Looks to me like the only problem is
that IE is buggy.

I don't save images so I haven't seen what you describe. Easiest to
find old images in "offline" mode and go through your "history" which
uses the temp internet files.

After looking through some earlier MVP comments, a problem I have
noticed that the temp files can loose proper indexing - some of them
get dropped. Best I can tell, if you bounce the temp files to another
location, erase what didn't move, then move the temp files back to
their original location, then what is left will be good and index
properly.

<Eureka> Maybe my problem is that I need to bounce the files again ! !
Some of them are lost...

Surely this whole temp internet files thing will be fixed in longhorn.
From what I hear of longhorn, doing searches will be paramount. Only
makes sense to be able to search your (well indexed ??) history.

Forrest

 

[t@k]

Hi - HAL9000,

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general you remarked...

XP Warriors,

I have set up a special hard disk partition to hold nothing but IE
temporary internet files. The Internet Options settings for the files
is 500 MB. The disk partition is set slightly larger than 500 MB. I
keep getting a systray popup saying to clean up the partition. The
Recycle Bin has been shut off for the partition.

It appears as though the temp internet files is growing without bound
past 500 MB. Is this what is going on or what?

Is XP monitoring E: for restore? If so then you should account for the
hidden 'System Volume Information' folder.

 

[- HAL9000]

Good try. I have shut off "restore" since temp internet files don't
need to be restored, hehehe.

I ended up bouncing my temp files to another location and back again.
I lost 200 MB of files in the process. So I guess everything is ok -
or at least as good as its going to get

Thanks,
Forrest

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

Good try. I have shut off "restore" since temp internet files don't
need to be restored, hehehe.

I ended up bouncing my temp files to another location and back again.
I lost 200 MB of files in the process. So I guess everything is ok -
or at least as good as its going to get

Thanks,
Forrest

You know you are killing your response time, though... If IE is having
to search through 500 mb of cache files, and it does this quite often,
then you have a much slower response than someone that is running IE
with no caching at all...

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have set up a special hard disk partition to hold nothing but IE
temporary internet files. The Internet Options settings for the files
is 500 MB. The disk partition is set slightly larger than 500 MB. I
keep getting a systray popup saying to clean up the partition. The
Recycle Bin has been shut off for the partition.

It appears as though the temp internet files is growing without bound
past 500 MB. Is this what is going on or what?

If you download a very big file, or do something like Streaming video,
it can expand the folder further.

Generally speaking it is not a good idea to set the folder anywhere near
that large - its indexes can get in a tangle. 50 MB is usually plenty,
and it can expand the folder if needed for a very large download.
Though it is in any case better to get those going direct to where they
will be wanted, by r-click on links and Save Target as

 

[- HAL9000]

My IE isn't slow at all. It's not even a little slow. It loads just
as fast as other apps.

The temp internet files "index" file is no where close to 500 MB. The
index file is searched - not the 500 MB of data.

Also, having a large amount of memory can do wonders for response
time.

Forrest