limitation to number of files in temporary internet file directory

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Hi Everyone,

it seems to me that whenever I get my temp internet files directory to just
below 20,000 files (# of files, not size) -- they start to unload and go back
down, and I can see my Size on disk size go down too -- even though it is
well below the limit I've given. I open very large assemblies where I am
downloading thousands of files into my cache, and I need to cache at least a
gig of files before my assembly is fully loaded. The problem is when I reach
20000 files in that directory (which is set to the default location on the C
drive), the files start to go away. Does anybody know if there is a
limitation like this? I am on an HP xw8200 PC running Windows XP
professional, SP1...using IE 6.0 128 bit.
Thanks for reading, and any help would be very much appreciated~
 
jopa66 said:
You may want to check out a little program called CacheSentry
http://www.enigmaticsoftware.com/
Good info at the site re: how the TIF works and how to better contol or In
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Thanks for the plug :-), but it probably won't help this user since the
limitation is in the # of records the index.dat can store. When the cache
goes over the maximum, the dreaded JPG/GIF-saves-as-BMP bug happens. This
issues is supposed to be fixed in IE7. I'm kind of surprised the original
poster's cache is reducing gracefully instead of just choking.
 
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I have a customer that is experiencing this exact issue.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Did you read David Pochron's answer in the thread you are posting in

http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...0d1c&mid=4f06384d-a459-4e82-a44f-261ee7bad606

<quote>
"the limitation is in the # of records the index.dat can store."
</quote>


An implied solution for the OP would be to stop using the TIF
as a pseudo TEMP directory.

BTW notice that another implication of the answer is that the cause
of the problem is not the number of files in the TIF but the number
of files in the TIF which are associated with cached URLs.
E.g. files such as the 0-byte files and even the .tmp files that OE pollutes
the TIF with should not count towards the 20,000 (or whatever) limit.

So it looks to me that the OP had two possible ways to avoid the symptom.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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