i beleive those files are news posts in general, not just ones used for
combine and decode.
On 11/24/05, James Button <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> An observation - appropriate and associated with the subject matter
> comments welcome
>
> I recently noted that the partition that includes my email was getting
> short of space:
>
> Investigation has identified the source of the problem as my recent use of
> OE6 to access some 'news' forums
>
> It seems that OE uses the IE Temporary storage for a storage area for the
> .tmp files it creates when it does a combine and decode process
> and those files are not included in the IE space management - either under
> the space usage specification, or the days to keep limit
>
> Additionally, on my W2K system at least, they do not show when you do a
> search of
> "InternetTempAndHistoryFiles and subdirectories"
> but do show when you do a search of
> "InternetTempAndHistoryFiles\Temporary Internet Files and subdirectories"
>
> I found there were over 1000 files occupying over 1.5Gb space
>
> I also found, and deleted over 8000 files that were 0 length, and had no
> type indications on the names just being either 8 char 'hash code' type
> names, or a number in []
>
>
> So - anybody know of a fix for this behaviour, or a means to stop OE using
> the IE storage area
>
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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