The Energon Pub

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:18 pm

Ok, under XP when you visited a site with lots of pictures, like here at Seibertron (or porn sites

), when you used to go into the temporary internet files all the pictures from the website were there (all the little banners and all the website content basically)

this was handy if you wanted to save a lot of pictures to your hard drive but didnt want to click 'save picture as' each time, you just clicked each imageto view it , then filtered the temp internet files by size and usually the larger jpegs appeared at the top, so you just copied them to your desired destination...

Now with Vista, ive found the Temp files, but there is hardly anything there, no jpegs and pretty much nothing from recently visited sites...can anyone tell me where the 'proper' temp internet files are?

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:29 pm

Did a quick search for you and came up with this:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low

Apparently retrieving files from IE7's cache in protected mode is a pain. I can't say I've tried it myself though as I don't use it.

Anyhoo, I'm not going to boot into Vista to check this so I don't know if it will work.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:36 pm

Tekka wrote:Did a quick search for you and came up with this:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low

hmmmm I don't seem to have that. And I went all the way through the AppData folder too.

Silly Burn's Vista.

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:40 pm

I had a look at my vista partition

C:/Users/ijuintekka/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary Internet Files/Low/Content.IE5/

Is where IE dumps its load for certain.

All the files are in different numbered directories. With names like 5LAN62RR or BXZWTXO2.

Obviously just replace ijuintekka with whatever your username is.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:53 pm

It really isn't there.

Firefox's is though. This is quite odd indeed. Remind me again how we tell it to view all hidden files? (Even though i'm sure i've already done that)

-edit-
Found it.

Click on Tools - Folder Options - View tab - Set it to "Show Hidden files and folders"

It'll turn up then.

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:53 pm

Tekka wrote:Did a quick search for you and came up with this:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low

Apparently retrieving files from IE7's cache in protected mode is a pain. I can't say I've tried it myself though as I don't use it.

Anyhoo, I'm not going to boot into Vista to check this so I don't know if it will work.

wasnt anything there, i moved the default location to somewhere else to double check i was looking in the right place...knowing MS, they are all hidden or something, even though i have 'show hidden files' checked

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 3:59 pm

hmm i found this C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Low\Temporary Internet Files

but it was completely empty, like i said i can view my temp files, go into IE, into tools, internet option, click on setting under Browsing History, then click view files, but on mine there is only a few meg of stuff, not nearly enough to be my actual temp files, considering the websites ive looked at today alone...i just dont get it

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:00 pm

I don't know what else to say. I swear to god they're there.

Here's proof:

It's probably one of Vista's security features.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:05 pm

You lazy barsteward.

I dunno, to lazy to right click and save porn :lol:

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:12 pm

Robo-Chugster wrote:hmm i found this C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Low\Temporary Internet Files

but it was completely empty, like i said i can view my temp files, go into IE, into tools, internet option, click on setting under Browsing History, then click view files, but on mine there is only a few meg of stuff, not nearly enough to be my actual temp files, considering the websites ive looked at today alone...i just dont get it

They're probably hidden. Follow the instructions in my last post.

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:16 pm

Dealer wrote:You lazy barsteward.

I dunno, to lazy to right click and save porn

well you end up with RSI in both wrist when you have to flick through over 100 images :-P

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:19 pm

Burn wrote:
Robo-Chugster wrote:hmm i found this C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\Temp\Low\Temporary Internet Files

but it was completely empty, like i said i can view my temp files, go into IE, into tools, internet option, click on setting under Browsing History, then click view files, but on mine there is only a few meg of stuff, not nearly enough to be my actual temp files, considering the websites ive looked at today alone...i just dont get it

They're probably hidden. Follow the instructions in my last post.

well i have 'show hidden files' switched on, and like i said, i can find where IE7 keeps the temp files, but there just doesnt seem to be enough of them there, not compared to what ive been browsing

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:21 pm

'cause you're looking in the wrong place.

Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files.

You're looking in the Temp folder.

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:25 pm

I think your best course of action is to get a better browser. I haven't been able to abide IE ever since it used to totally lock up W98 whenever it froze.

I know a lot of people don't like to hear others go on about how awful IE is, and believing it to be a waste of time to download something else. But really you're only looking at a couple of megs to download Firefox or Opera, and either one of those will give you more control over what you can and can't do.

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:29 pm

ok here is my folder, with hidden files shown, i movrd it back where it was:

you can view the folder from the IE tools box, but it doesnt show everything

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:31 pm

and here is the folder viewed from the IE tools box, ordered by size...no large jpegs of anything:

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:32 pm

Oh I have a question. Do you have "show protected/system files" enabled as well as "hidden" files?

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:38 pm

Tekka wrote:Oh I have a question. Do you have "show protected/system files" enabled as well as "hidden" files?

i didnt actually, but it still isnt showing the right files, there are no temp files for seibertron.com in there at all, there should be peoples sigs and stuff

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:41 pm

Try putting the location directly into the address bar and hit enter.

C:\Users\Chug\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\

I'm sure they must be there so they may be hidden no matter what.

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:47 pm

Tekka wrote:Try putting the location directly into the address bar and hit enter.

C:\Users\Chug\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Low\Content.IE5\

I'm sure they must be there so they may be hidden no matter what.

hallelujah, you my good sir, have cracked it...thanks very much

News Credits: 2 · by **Tekka** » Thu May 29, 2008 4:50 pm

Woohoo!

by **Robo-Chugster** » Thu May 29, 2008 5:20 pm

seems odd though, thats the only way i can access that folder (pasting the address in), going through Explorer, clicking on sub folders, doesnt show it...must be one of those weird Vista things