Re: Can't Access My Old, Stored Cookies
- From: deejs6609 <deejs6609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:54:06 -0700
I'm not just using them as a reference. They also stored all my settings and
login information for the many websites I use. I just want to put them back
into my Temporary Internet Files folder or get IE to be able to access them
again.
"Squire" wrote:
> If you are just using the old cookie file for a reference,
> Why not rename the old temp file,
> and then create a shortcut to it.
> That way you will have an Icon on the desktop for quick access.
>
>
> "deejs6609" <deejs6609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8CE56DDE-220B-4800-A3E4-C7F523D1ACA7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Can't Access My Old, Stored Cookies
> > I'm not sure how it happened, but somehow IE 6.02 changed my Temporary
> > Internet Files folder two days ago and created a brand new folder that
> > doesn't contain any of my previously stored cookies that I had saved to
> > remember my personalized settings for many different websites.
> >
> > I have found the folder with ALL of the old cookies still there (a
> > relief!),
> > but I cannot find a way to access those cookies again. I cannot reset that
> > folder as the Temporary Internet Files folder.
> >
> > I tried copying and pasting the old cookies into the new Temporary
> > Internet
> > Files folder, but IE and/or XP-sp2 won't let me do that. I tried copying
> > the
> > ''INDEX.DAT'' file from the folder containing all my old cookies and
> > settings, but I don't know to where I should copy the "INDEX.DAT" file so
> > that IE will once again be able to access ALL of the cookies I've
> > previously
> > stored.
> >
> > I have also tried the Import/Export Wizard in IE, but when I must choose a
> > file to export, I cannot select more that one file/cookie at at time so
> > that
> > I can import them all at once.
> >
> > I don't care that much about how or why this happened (although, that
> > would
> > be helpful, too I just want to be able to access all that user information
> > I've carefully and meticulously stored in all those cookies that now I
> > can't
> > access!
> >
> > More Details...
> > <C:\Documents and Settings\(my name)\Cookies> is where the cookies are
> > that
> > I want to access.
> >
> > The directory of the new Temporary Internet Files (TIF) directory is
> > <C:\Documents and Settings\(my name)\Cookies\Temporary Internet Files>.
> > (However, I must note that this is a new TIF directory that was created
> > when
> > I was trying to make the directory where my cookies are now, the new TIF
> > directory.) The folder that used to be the TIF directory, I think, was
> > C:\Documents and Settings\(my name)\Temporary Internet Files, which also
> > contains the Content.IE5 folder.
> >
> > I've looked at the Cookies and TIF folders under ''Administrator,'' ''All
> > Users,'' and ''Default User,'' and none of them contain my old cookies.
> >
> > As for cleaning programs that work with IE, I use SpybotSD, AdAware, and I
> > recently ran CCleaner (following the advice of several other members
> > here.) I
> > was careful to deselect Cookies before I ran it. I do not have backup
> > files
> > from previous runs of these programs.
> >
> > What I mean by ''XP won't let me copy'' is that the ''Paste'' function
> > isn't
> > available in the new TIF directory, <C:\Documents and Settings\(my
> > name)\Cookies\Temporary Internet Files>. Also, if I try to drag and drop
> > the
> > old cookies into the same directory, there's just a circle/slash symbol
> > indicating that I can't do that.
> >
> > There must be a simple solution to load settings and cookies from another
> > directory, shouldn't there be? I hope this info will help with a solution.
> > Thanks!
> >
>
>
>
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