Deleting Temp. Internet Files

[Sharon]

This post is FYI and a thanks to Cal.

My Money file has become corrupt on numerous occasions
over the past couple of years. Lately the downloads would
be listed on the account list, BUT not in the register.
One of the things Cal suggested was for me to delete the
Temporay Internet Files from Internet Explorer Options. I
did as he suggested, but it did not SEEM to fix the
problem.

THEN later this past week I started looking at my
Temporary Internet Files and discovered they were NOT
being deleted by clicking on the delete files button in IE
Options. I opened the Temporary Internet Folder and I had
thousands of undeleted files. I tried to manually delete
them, but some files REFUSED to delete which stopped the
whole Delete All Files process. I could not drag them to
the trash or right click and delete or move them in any
way. Even after restarting my computer.

So I tried started up in Safe Mode. They still wouldn't
delete, BUT they would move. So I moved them to an empty
desktop folder and they deleted the folder. FINALLY they
were gone.

I opened up my corrupted money files. Many of the
downloads came back at that time.

Hopefully, my Money Files will now stay healthy.

Thanks for your suggestion.
Sharon

[Cal Learner-- MVP]

In microsoft.public.money, Sharon wrote:

Thanks.

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>So I tried started up in Safe Mode. They still wouldn't
>delete, BUT they would move. So I moved them to an empty
>desktop folder and they deleted the folder. FINALLY they
>were gone.

I assume you are talking about the
: \Documents and Settings\userName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files
folder.

When I clicked the IE6 Tools->InternetOptions->DeleteFiles button
in, I was left with only cookies and an icon. I wonder, then, if
clicking DeleteCookies in addition to DeleteFiles would have given
the same success. You would have to re-enter passwords at various
sites, but that is certainly worthwhile to get things going.

Earlier it had been suggested that DeleteCookies was potentially
needed in some cases, but it seemed that deleting cookies was not
necessary when people reported results.

Your technique of going right to the temporary folder would seem
even more powerful. Thanks for posting your method of success.

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>I opened up my corrupted money files. Many of the
>downloads came back at that time.
>
>Hopefully, my Money Files will now stay healthy.

I have a theory that having the temporary internet files amount of
disk space to use set huge might increase the chance that something
could go awry. Plus I have read opinions that setting the number at
a more moderate level would actually be faster in many cases. I have
the size set to 50MB on one machine and 20MB on the other. Slower
connections argue for a larger size, and slower processors argue for
a smaller number IMHO.

Again, congratulations on your success, and thanks for your post.

[anon...@discussions.microsoft.com]

Thanks for your comments on Deleting Cookies. I always
delete Cookies when troubleshooting just to be sure.
However, it probably isn't as necessary as deleting the
Temporary Internet Files. I use Roboform for storing all
my passwords which I LOVE, so deleting passwords isn't a
concern for me.

I have lowered the amount of disk space TIF can take up to
20mb, so they may help too.

I am hoping that MS Money 2005 will be a bit more stable
and I'll have less corrupted files.

Thanks again.

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