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rodocop
These are engine-related cache folders. Mozilla preconfigures place for cache files as well as for history (file places.sqlite).
You can avoid them if you have broadband connection - just switch disk cache off and then delete cache folders in file manager (not from KM itself).
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siria
Now from the description with the 0-F folders that must be the hexadecimal system, similar as used for color names (#AABBCC), with 16 characters 0-F. It's like having a single folder for A-Z, with each containing A-Z subfolders again, and each of those containing their own A-Z subfolders again, only with an alphabet of 16 instead of 26 characters. All in all as many folders as colornames exist - they are NUTS!
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Slickone
Why does clearing disc cache in F2 not clear the files in cache2\entries?
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Can I delete these? How do I prevent so many in the future? They go back to November.
Not a big deal, but can any of the many thousands of seemingly non-used folders be deleted without disabling disk cache?
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Slickone
So I can safely delete the Cache, cache2, and OfflineCache folders?
Anyone up to building a macro to delete the cache2/entries files?
@echo off if exist "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profile\cache2" rd "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profile\cache2" /S /Q if exist "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profile\Cache" rd "C:\Program Files\K-Meleon\Profile\Cache" /S /Q---
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Slickone
^^ Thanks a lot, foliator.
The startupCache just has one small file in it, which is why I didn't mention it, but the Cache folder contents seem to be about the same as the Cache folder.
Also the startupCache and Cache folders didn't get recreated after running KM, which is good I guess.
Startup and working in KM are faster now.
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siria
Interesting solution, with bat file
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Another thought, but needs testing: what happens if you set the empty folders write-protected, before KM start? If they get reset and still filled, next try: delete them and create a file with their name, setting those files write-protected?
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Slickone
^^ Thanks a lot, foliator.
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...the startupCache and Cache folders didn't get recreated after running KM, which is good I guess.
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Slickone
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I mean "startupCache" and "Cache". The main cache folder seems to be "cache2". After starting, cache2 was recreated and files were continually added as I browsed.
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Slickone
I have browser.cache.use_new_backend with a value of 0.
Also have browser.cache.use_new_backend_temp with a value of true.
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In my case, of course, neither of them make any difference, since I use only the memory cache. I disabled disk caching roughly a year ago and haven't re-enabled it since then. It speeds up browsing on some systems, and slows it down on others.
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Slickone
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foliator
In my case, of course, neither of them make any difference, since I use only the memory cache. I disabled disk caching roughly a year ago and haven't re-enabled it since then. It speeds up browsing on some systems, and slows it down on others.
And there will be even more of such subfolders through caching under ...\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5.Quote
foliator
Actually, IE has some of that craziness, too. In AppData\Local\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ there are usually 4 subfolders, each with a (hexadecimal) name, for example:
539WUB1P
UH5UYNM2
V55WLB1B
WQNOTD3K
The index.dat's you can delete with CCleaner (freeware) e.g. They will not be deleted directly there, anyway, but marked for deleting at the next boot up.Quote
foliator
Add to that, there's "index.dat", which cannot be deleted.
Cookies are stored in AppData\Local\Temp\Cookies, with another "index.dat" that can't be deleted.
There's also AppData\Local\Temp\History.IE5 with its subfolders and yet another index.dat that you can't get rid of.
I come allready to terms with the fact, nothing is perfect in Internet. Each must look for his own ways to optimalize the surfing for his own needs. If somthing seems to be perfect, it's allways only short time limited, allready in the next days it doesn't need to be so more necessarily. I learned allready to reduce my comfort requirements very wide and I accept even, some ranges I could reach only under unacceptable efforts, thats why I abstain from it or refuse, respectively.Quote
foliator
all the big three browsers are nuts. Don't know what Google Chrome is like, but it probably just serves up a different kind of nut. .
I delete sometimes up to all ...\Profiles\3y2fjpuo.default\Cache files problemless while KM is running with exception of the 4 files _CACHE_001..3_ and _CACHE_MAP_. These four I can delete only when KM not running. I think that are the pendants of index.dat files at IE. They will be set to volume zero by clearing cache in KM too, anyway.Quote
foliatorI'm not sure that you can delete them while KM is runningQuote
Slickone
So I can safely delete the Cache, cache2, and OfflineCache folders?
Actually I'm using what some call a netbook with Win7 and 2GB RAM. I'll try disabling disk cache and see how it goes.Quote
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Depending on what? What do you have?Quote
foliator
In my case, of course, neither of them make any difference, since I use only the memory cache. I disabled disk caching roughly a year ago and haven't re-enabled it since then. It speeds up browsing on some systems, and slows it down on others.
Well, I'm on a broadband connection. Even so, the speed is not as high as my ISP claims. I'm using a little netbook with Windows 7. The computer has enough memory to rely solely on the memory cache. There's plenty of drive space for the disk cache, too, but if I use it, the browsing performance is considerably slower.
If your system is short on memory, then you're quite right to be using the disk cache, but that can fill up your drive space quickly if you have a long session online, so deleting those cache files after each session is a good workaround.
There are so many variables. If you're on a slow connection, that can make a big difference, too, especially if it's a dial-up connection.
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Slickone
Actually I'm using what some call a netbook with Win7 and 2GB RAM. I'll try disabling disk cache and see how it goes.
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FYI netbook is actually a misnomer.
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Slickone
The 600 vertical res on the 10" drove me crazy since some popup window buttons would even be hidden below the screen and couldn't be selected if I couldn't grab the title bar to move it up.
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The screen hinges on my 11.6 inch have fallen apart though so I'm moving up soon. Also the battery only lasts maybe 30 minutes.
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I've noticed something I've done while browsing finally made my startupCache and Cache folders to be recreated. Remember they didn't at first.
Also I'm wondering if the reason my F2 option doesn't clear cache is because if I click the View button in F2, the path for cache shown is "...\cache2", but again the entries are in "cache2\entries", not "\cache2". ?
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Slickone
Wouldn't this be an easy fix for the developer? But seems like development and fixes have pretty much stopped.