OE and temporary IE folders, how to trim log files

[Dora Smith]

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

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 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.

It looks as though more stuff must be in some of these folders than cookies.
I checked under view, and it is displaying all files. Not excluding some
kinds of files.

My 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 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?



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Yours,
Dora Smith
St. David's Episcopal Church
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)


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Yours,
Dora Smith
St. David's Episcopal Church
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Brian Tillman]

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.

How is this in any way an Outlook question?

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

Anything required for viewing a web page is downloaded from the Internet and
placed in the Temporary Internet Files cache so that, if you go back to that
page, the data is already on your PC and doesn't have to be downloaded
again. IE keeps a limit on how large that cache can grow and will delete
old data if you reach the limit. You can also force IE to delete it with
Tools>Internet Options>Delete Files. You can also open a command prompt
window and delete it from there with:

cd C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files
del /f /q /s *.*

If you're not currently running Windows 95, 98, or ME right now, that this
PC was upgraded from Windows 95/98/ME to what you have now (Windows
2000/XP). In the former versions, IE kept its cache in C:\Windows. In
2000/XP, it's per user in %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Temporary Internet
Files.

Dora Smith
St. David's Episcopal Church

Brian Tilman
Grace Episcopal Church

(e-mail address removed)

Expect lots of junk mail now that you've published your Internet address for
all the SPAMbot that harvest the newsgroups. It's NEVER a good idea to post
your email address in clear text in USENET. Moreover, you used your real
address as the sender in Outlook Express V5 (which is what I can see you're
using to post). Bad form.

 

[Dora Smith]

Brian:

You should have read the entire post. Before answering a whole bunch of
questions I never asked. You're a veritable Episcopal church official.

I want to know if my Outlook Express mail is somehow connected to my
Internet Explorer temporary internet files. I explained in detail why I
suspect that.

--
Yours,
Dora Smith
St. David's Episcopal Church
Austin, Texas
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Brian Tillman]

I want to know if my Outlook Express mail is somehow connected to my
Internet Explorer temporary internet files. I explained in detail
why I suspect that.

But Outlook Express is completely off-topic in an Outlook newsgroup.
Outlook Express questions go here:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress