Cookies Lost 1

[pajudd]

Nutcase tech support emailout required useres to delete cookies to solve a problem with a cookie from their webservice site.

They failed to advise that of course all other cookies would be lost as well.

Tried this experiment on my machine before advising students:
-copied my Win XP Home folder (C:\Documents and Settings\Peter\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files)
-used the IE6 / Tools / Internet Options / Delete files button; Files in the noted folder were not deleted!!
-used Delete Cookies button; cookies were deleted.
-tried to copy cookies from backed up copied folder; Win would not allow copying.

How do I clear my cache manually?
Now how do I restore my numerous useful cookies?

Thanks all,
Peter

 

[linney]

Try copying the Cookies from your copy of T.I.F. directly into the Cookies folder in your Username folder and not into the T.I.F

 

[pajudd]

linney,

Do you know why the identical cookies reside in both T.I.F & the Cookies folder in your Username folder?
In fact why are they in the T.I.F. folder at all?

Peter

 

[linney]

Without looking it up I believe the cookies in T.I.F. are either a shortcut, or a copy of the cookies in the Cookie folder. The Content.IE5 folder from the T.I.F. folder is a bit complicated all round with files hidden and unaccessible even to Administrators and even some windows program like search or even DOS,(being controlled by various Desktop.ini files and Index.dat files).

You might want to research the whole story at this site. The article is Windows 9x related but the story of Desktop.ini and Index.dat files is pretty much applicable to XP.

http://www.astalavista.com/library/os/win95-98/mshidden.txt