I clean out my Temporary Internet folder frequently in order to have more room on my hard drive. How do I know the files to keep in order to be recognized by this page and others that I frequent who leave cookies and temp files? Any help would be appreciated.
Pick up a program like Window Washer (I won’t put a link since it’s a commercial site). It has an option where you can keep your favorite cookies.
You should be able to toss all graphic (jpg and gif), sound (wav, au, mp3 etc), and html files.
If you want to preserve cookies then just don’t delete anything labled “cookie” anything. I assume you’re using IE, since you are dealing with that directory. I don’t know where it stores it’s cookies, but it’s probably in a .txt file.
I like Mr. Blue’s answer.
But I don’t have such a program. I’m not good at deleting temp files either. However, I do dig in there sometimes and this is the deal:
When you are in the temp folders window. Click on the heading “NAME” and it will make sure everything is sorted in name order. Generally, all the cookies will be grouped together because they start with the word Cookie. Then you can pick and choose which ones you want to keep.
(And no, you don’t have to delete file-by-file. Click on the first item. When you get to someting you want to keep, hold down the shift and click the item above the keeper. That highlights everything in between your two clicks. Press delete and start again.)
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[ol][li]Right click on your Internet Explorer icon on the desktop and select “Properties” (or double-click the Internet Control Panel applet).[/li][li]On the General Tab, in the middle section “Temporary Internet Files”, click “Delete Files”.[/li][li]Do not check the Delete all subscription content.[/li][li]Click the OK button[/li][/ol]
This procedure will delete all your temp files but not your cookies. It’s for IE 4.0, but there should be an similar procedure on IE 5.0 and 5.5.
Also, you can change the settings (use the “Settings…” button on the same page) to limit the temp folder to a specified percentage of your disk space. Unfortunately the smallest number is 1%.
All I have when doing that is just some info about IE. I’ve got IE5.
Its essentially the same process for IE5, as Joe Malik said…
Go to Tools, Internet Options, Delete Files, check Delete All Offline Content, then click OK.
This will still leave all of your cookies.
You can than go to Tools, Internet Options, Settings, View Files. Everything that is still there after you have done Delete Files will be cookies.
Highlight all of the ones that you want to delete, then hit the Delete button.
Starbury. Got it. Done it. Appreciate it.