Reposting of temp doc problem.

[Dave Neve]

Hi

Forgive me for reposting this message but no one replied.
So I'm open to long shots, however wacky.
My own idea is that the anti virus scan works a bit like a recovery software
and checks 'deleted' docs (at least lists them) and that these temp docs
have been deleted in the past but not overwritten.
But I'm out of my league here.

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This is a problem for me on a friend's computer running XP family Edition.

Recently, I had to run a virus scan for blaster worm and I used MCafee
'Stinger'

During the scan , I saw thousands of .tmp folders being scanned and I noted
their location to offer to clean them out of the system.

The mystery is that I can't find them in Windows inspite of having their
address.

The folder simply isn't there when I look.

I have also used 'Explorer' to show all .tmp files and they don't show up.

Folder Options are activated 'to show hidden files and docs' so that is not
apparently the problem.

So what gives?.


Thanks in advance

 

[Kim]

Is the folder that you can't see called "recycler" ? I
ran into this a while back on a w2k machine and I think
it's the same for windows xp also. If you go out to dos
and cd to c:\recycler, you can see this folder. Might
have to type dir/a to see the contents. I don't have an
explanation for it, but there is some info about
the "recylcer" folder on the microsoft site.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Could that be the Recycle Bin? If you just "delete" files from the hard
drive in Windows, they go to the Recycle Bin. Only if you Shift+Delete are
they actually deleted.

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[Dave Neve]

Hi

What do you mean by 'go out to DOS and and CD please'?

 

[Graham Mayor]

These are ancient DOS commands and hardly relevant to your original problem
as you can display hidden folders in Explorer by simply setting the required
preferences without having to learn yet another arcane language.

Windows should store its temp files in the temp folder appropriate to the
operating system. Are you sure that they hjaven't been removed? Windows
should tidy up after itself and many temp files are deleted as a matter of
course.

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