Re: Index files /re post

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From: Headtheball (noanswer_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/11/04 

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:11:43 +0100

So how does one ever truly delete something?
"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Index.dat files are catalogs for the system. Sort of like a listing of
> what
> is. Removing something from it does not delete it, it just removes the
> reference for the system to locate it.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
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>
> "Headtheball" <noanswer@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ea1qfYyZEHA.3420@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> When information is deleted from within index.dat files, is the
> information
>> truly gone or is there another file somewhere that logs the files that
>> you
>> have just deleted and why are there so many index files, what do they all
>> mean?
>>
>>
>
>

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