Re: Batch to delete TIFs, History, and Cookies
- From: "kaream" <kaream@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Mar 2006 01:37:30 -0800
"What you see when you view the TIF folder is what's listed in
index.dat, not what's actually present."
Thanks, Gary. I've seen hints to that general effect here in these
discussion groups, but never stated quite so plainly.
Actually, Bryan, I suspect your situation is going to be somewhat
different as administrator of 30 machines; I'm not sure what you will
see, but would be curious to know if you'd be kind enough to post back
here.
On a single-user XP machine, if you click down in Windows Explorer to
the TIF folder, you'll see a bunch of cookies and other pointers
listed, but not Content.IE5 or index.dat. So what Gary is saying is
that this is the listing from the hidden index.dat. Again talking
about a single-user computer, the easiest way to see the hidden stuff
is to click the TIF folder to put that much of the pathname into the
Explorer address bar, and append "\content.ie5" following the word
"Files". Now under the main TIF folder you'll still see the cookies
and pointers, and in Content.IE5 you'll see the various randomly-named
subfolders as well as index.dat and desktop.ini. Unlike the pointers
in the main TIF folder, the files inside the randomly-named folders are
all real files that had been automatically downloaded from each website
visited; the filenames in the two different areas are similar but not
identical. At this point you can simply delete whatever you want to
get rid of, from either area.
The difference between a single-user vs a multi-user XP computer is
that on a multi-user machine, if you look at any logon other than your
own, what you see is that person's index.dat, desktop.ini and
Content.IE5, complete with subfolders and real files, but not their TIF
cookies and pointers. You also cannot see their actual History
entries, although you can see the index.dat files for the main History
folder, and for its subfolders. The contents of other users' dedicated
Cookies folders are not hidden, but these will probably not be
identical to the TIF cookies -- at least they aren't in mine, because I
use CookieWall, which blocks new cookies from the Cookies folder but
not from the TIF folder.
So we're not at all answering your question about a multi-machine
environment, much less about an appropriate batch file -- but perhaps
these comments may help a little. I assume you're not particularly
interested in whatever OLK or other special hidden folders there might
be inside TIF; getting at these is slightly more complicated, but not
difficult. Note, however, that working at the DOS level with your
batch file will still not necessarily access everything hidden in
Windows -- MS also hides lots of stuff from DOS. I think the first
thing you need to do, once you know all of the hidden stuff you have to
look for, is to find out exactly what on your 30 computers you can
access from your admin machine in Windows, and then in DOS. At that
point it should be pretty easy to write your batch file.
.
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