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Charles Elliott
In the past, every now and then I have noticed cookies and temporary
internet files stored in a subdirectory of R:\Temp, the system's main
temporary directory (pointed to by the environment variable TEMP). They
always had a stale date, so I just deleted them. Now, 11/14/04, there are
cookies and temporary Internet files ( *.gif, *.jpg, *.html, etc.) there
with dates from 11/11/04 to 11/14/04. This is true despite the fact that in
the menu option Tools/Internet Options/General/Settings, the current
location for Temporary Internet Files is still specified as S:\Temporary
Internet Files. Does anybody know why Internet Explorer (IE) would change
the file path for Temporary Internet Files without any warning? Earlier
this morning, I went through the motions of changing the setting for
Temporary Internet Files by "Moving the folder" (back) to S:\Temporary
Internet Files, even though the dialog box already said the files were being
stored there, not in R:\Temp\Temporary Internet Files. I also,
unfortunately, increased the allowed size for these files from 85 to 110 MB.
Now IE is storing the Temporary Internet Files subdirectories of
S:\Temporary Internet Files\Temporary Internet Files\Temporary Internet
Files\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5, and it has moved the cookies
there too. All the subdirectories are quizical, but not a problem. The
only real problem is why it would move the Temporary Internet Files to
R:\Temp. Does anyone know why IE does this?
Thanks in advance --
Charles Elliott
internet files stored in a subdirectory of R:\Temp, the system's main
temporary directory (pointed to by the environment variable TEMP). They
always had a stale date, so I just deleted them. Now, 11/14/04, there are
cookies and temporary Internet files ( *.gif, *.jpg, *.html, etc.) there
with dates from 11/11/04 to 11/14/04. This is true despite the fact that in
the menu option Tools/Internet Options/General/Settings, the current
location for Temporary Internet Files is still specified as S:\Temporary
Internet Files. Does anybody know why Internet Explorer (IE) would change
the file path for Temporary Internet Files without any warning? Earlier
this morning, I went through the motions of changing the setting for
Temporary Internet Files by "Moving the folder" (back) to S:\Temporary
Internet Files, even though the dialog box already said the files were being
stored there, not in R:\Temp\Temporary Internet Files. I also,
unfortunately, increased the allowed size for these files from 85 to 110 MB.
Now IE is storing the Temporary Internet Files subdirectories of
S:\Temporary Internet Files\Temporary Internet Files\Temporary Internet
Files\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5, and it has moved the cookies
there too. All the subdirectories are quizical, but not a problem. The
only real problem is why it would move the Temporary Internet Files to
R:\Temp. Does anyone know why IE does this?
Thanks in advance --
Charles Elliott