# Tell me about the "Cookies" Index

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-cookies-index/525544>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 19, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-cookies-index/525544 "2010-01-19T10:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-cookies-index/525544/1 "2010-01-19T10:56:48Z")

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If there is already a folder of cookies, why does the PC create an index? And, is deleting that index bad when one goes to delete cookies? I assume it can be readily re-generated, true?

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**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-the-cookies-index/525544/2 "2010-01-19T17:02:33Z")

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Indexes are generally used to speed up lookup-time. Whether or not you can rebuild this particular index file is not clear to me - that can only be done if the information in the index file is also available elsewhere.

Anyway, see: [http://www.codeode.com/privacymantra/locations/index.dat/index.html](http://www.codeode.com/privacymantra/locations/index.dat/index.html)