Why Does IE Insist on Keeping 2 Copies of Everything?!

[Escalade]

This is running under Win2k with IE5.5, there is a
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
and a
C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
directory.

If tell IE to clear all files, both directories are emptied. Then after browsing I expected the ?administrator? directory to have some files in it, but so does the ?default user? - in fact they both have the exact same files!

Why is IE doing double work? And maybe more importantly, how do I make it stop?


TIA

 

[Escalade]

Anyone?

 

[prosaic]

Best not to worry about it. The duplication is more apparent than real. That's just the Internet Explorer cache at work there. What you're seeing is normal. (Yes, it looks silly. But it makes faster access to the cache contents possible.)

- prosaic

 

[Haden]

C is NTFS? set directory permisisions so nobody can write there (I would try Default dir first).
Check is IE still working, if not try other dir, if still no go... undo

 

[SUOrangeman]

"Temporary Internet Files" is one of dem "special" folders in Winders. Although there may be more than one apparent instance of TIF, they are all mappings to one local (set in the registry). IE is not really duplicating anything ... in that regard.

HOWEVER, when you are truly downloading a file (say, the latest release of Ad-Aware), IE will first save the file in TIF and then copy it to your chosen destination. If your true TIF is on the same drive as your chsoen destination, you will have dupes for a few moments. This can suck if we're talking about large downloads like ISOs, etc.

-SUO