For instance if I get any file (excel, word, access) on my email (I use Outlook) and I open it and do a "save as " it immediately defaults to Windows --> Temporary Internet Files --> olk3081.
What is that?
It looks like some sort of security. I usually save my files to the “U” drive. Now I have my excel set up so when I open it goes right to my U drive when I do a “SAVE AS”
But when I open any file from an email and do a “SAVE AS” it defaults to the olk3081.
Can I change this?
And what exactly gets saved in there? Not all the excel files I open get saved there. But just looking thru it some files from 2 years ago are still sitting in it.
It seems that .olk file extension means it’s part of Outlook’s address book file. Maybe, because you’re saving files from an email in Outlook, your system is defaulting to keeping these files together in a olk folder? Dunno, just a WAG.
If you look at a Temporary Internet Files folder from another OS or over the network, there are many subfolders in it. The folders seem to be a standard of 3 random letters followed by 4 random numbers. I don’t know why it’s done like this (and why, if you look at the Temporary Internet Files folder in explorer on the OS you’re running from, you just see what seems to be all the directories merged together into that one big directory full of your cached files). I also don’t know how long one folder exists before another is created, or when a folder stops being used and is deleted. That covers why the folder exists. Since Outlook is a Microsoft program, it handles files the same way Internet Explorer would. When you open the file, Outlook acts like you just want to see the file (not edit and save it somewhere specific). Because of that, it places the file in a temporary spot (Temporary Internet Files). If you just closed the file, you would never have to worry about cleanup, as MS Outlook/IE handle it. But since you edited and want to save it, you see the where the temporary file exists, and what it’s called. When you go to your “Save As…” dialog box, you see where the file’s temporarily kept because that’s where it is when you started editing it. There may be a setting there to keep automatically opening the “Save As…” dialog box on your U drive, but I don’t know it offhand and can’t look because I’m not near a Windows machine.
Another possibility that just occured to me is they keep files in there by default because they (like files from IE) come from the Internet, and may be potentially dangerous. Maybe they can (in the future) limit what files in that directory can access. Situation I’m thinking about is if there’s a virus in the MS Word document you get sent to you, and you open the file (with the temporary file existing in that directory), the virus wouldn’t be able to run because there are limits on what files in that folder can go to. Kind of like cookies, they can exist there, but they can’t really go wherever they want on the system. As far as I know, there’s no restrictions like that on a Microsoft OS, but you never know what could come out in the future.
The OLK-Outlook connection is a coincidence I think, but I’m just guessing.
That went on a bit, but I hope it gave you SOME help
