Thousands of .IDX files in My Documents

Factual Questions
1

I opened My Documents a couple weeks ago to find files beginning with CA00.IDX, and onto:

CA0B.IDX
CA0C.IDX
CA0D.IDX

and so and and so on. . .does anyone know what this is?

There are thousands of them, should I be concerned?

2

Do you have AOL? .IDX is an extension used by temporary mail files in AOL. Some other possibilities here.

3

Try opening them in Notepad (Open With…) to see if there’s any recognizable text in there - that might give you an idea what they are. Usually idx = index, but many different applications use that same file extension for different file types (Agent, Outlook Express…)

4

I opened about 5 files in notepad and get the following:

TIDX è

Thanks Q.E.D. - not sure though - don’t have AOL, don’t use Outlook Express, Corel, ICQ, and I’m not sure about the other items on that page. . .

A certain fragment of my brain absolutely hates seeing them there, and wants SO BADLY to delete them ALL! I stuck them in a folder anyways, so they aren’t really bothering me I guess, as long as they’re not hurting anything.

5

If you moved them to a folder and everything is still functioning fine, then you can safely delete them. Moving them to a subfolder effectively “hides” them from whatever appilication or process created them, so if nothing exploded, you’re good to go.