Cannot see Content.IE5 in Temporary Internet Files

[meatologist]

Well I said "pretty sure"

Try this location instead, with Adobe Save As box opened

Start->Run->%userprofile%\local settings\temporary internet files

Actually you can delete everything in temporary internet files, by running this line:
Start->Run->RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

You may aswell just ignore those folders.

There are no other ways of finding the Content.IE5 folder. You must just be typing something wrong or... I don't know. It's just a folder. it should be simple.

My idea of changing temp int files location in Firefox would show you if the random folder names are created inside the temp int files folder.

I'll let kimsland take over, as he seems to have a higher opinion on things.

Good luck

 

[gbhall]

Do you mean Windows Internet Explorer? If not, how do I find Windows Explorer?

Dane

Ah, Windows Explorer - that is an icon on the desktop that depends on your part of the world. if you are Spanish, it looks like Ferdinand Magellan, or Chrisopher Columbus. British have Francis Drake or James Cook. If you're Portugese it looks like Vasco da Gama.

If you are American, you have....oh, that explains your problem, you don't have one.

Just lay off fellows, this person does not understand how to use Explorer, and is using File Find, which of course, cannot find most things, by design.

 

[TGTech]

Well I said "pretty sure"

Try this location instead, with Adobe Save As box opened

Start->Run->%userprofile%\local settings\temporary internet files

Actually you can delete everything in temporary internet files, by running this line:
Start->Run->RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

I have no problem finding the Temporary Internet Files and I can clean them out with no problem. HOWEVER, those damn IE5 folders do "find" files and save them. And I can't find them to clean them out or delete the folders.

Dane

 

[kimsland]

Just lay off fellows, this person does not understand how to use Explorer, and is using File Find, which of course, cannot find most things, by design.

I must say that this statement is true.

TGTech, the folders have been created temporarily, somewhere
I thought it was in Temp, then with all the talk on Temporary Internet Files, I thought there.
But, in the end it doesn't matter where. They are obviously being created because you can see them.
By the way you can even Explore from the Save As box.
i.e. When the small Save As box opens, just right click on the yellow folder and select Open. And there it is.

Anyway, a lot of fuss about this folder, that exists temporarily whilst the Adobe save window is open. Then removed when it's closed.
Nothing to do.

 

[TGTech]

Ah, Windows Explorer - that is an icon on the desktop that depends on your part of the world. if you are Spanish, it looks like Ferdinand Magellan, or Chrisopher Columbus. British have Francis Drake or James Cook. If you're Portugese it looks like Vasco da Gama.

If you are American, you have....oh, that explains your problem, you don't have one.

Just lay off fellows, this person does not understand how to use Explorer, and is using File Find, which of course, cannot find most things, by design.

OK "Mr. Expert", see if you can answer the real question:

When I have Adobe Acrobat open with a pdf file showing on the screen, and then I click on File, then Save As, this pops up:



When I open My Computer, Local Disk (C, Documents and Settings, Administrator, (I am the Administrator) and Local Settings, the next window opens up with Application Data, Apps, and Temp. There is no Temporary Internet Files, or files showing.

If I put into the address bar, C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files, then this shows up:




lots of Temporary Internet Files.

But where the hell are those IE5 folders titled 3H1J5BB2 or SX7JDX2W. Having read all of the threads and suggestions that meatology and kimsland have provided, these IE5 folders are still not anywhere I can find them.

On my desktop machine at home, I am able to find these type of folders with no problems. But on this notebook, they just don't show up anywhere "exploring" the computer. I've done Search and they don't show up.

One of the strange thing to me, is that I NEVER use IE because it is slower than molasses in Winter. Firefox or Chrome are way faster. So where the hell are these "IE" folders, since I don't even use IE? And since I'm doing a Save As from Adobe Acrobat, why the hell would these folders pop up for Save In since these files aren't coming from IE?

There is one thought regarding the pdf files. These files were e-mailed to me from another computer in our business, and the e-mail program is Outlook Express, which is part of Windows Internet Explorer. Maybe, for some reason, because they are coming from Outlook Express and coming into Outlook Express, maybe that's why the IE5 folders show up. But why can't they be found? Since you seem to be an "expert", what would be your suggestion?

Dane

 

[kimsland]

Well I mentioned one way above (right clicking on the yellow folder in the Save as box, then opening it)

But you just provided a bit more detail
These PDF files that you're opening, where are you opening them from?
I suspect they are originally residing in the temporary location from Outlook Express, which uses similar (or same) location as IE

Here's the idea:
(note there are many ways of doing these steps)
Right click on the Outlook Express PDF attachment
Save to Desktop
Close Outlook Express
Close any Internet browser (IE; Firefox; you name it)
Run CCleaner again (as I see many Cookies in Temporary Internet Files again)
View your Desktop PDF file, and confirm that it is a PDF File (it will have the Adobe icon picture)
Double click on it, so Adobe opens it

Then Save As
It will highly likely, select Desktop or My Documents, as the location

Oh, and no more big pics, I'm already thinking of removing all these!

 

[TGTech]

Well I mentioned one way above (right clicking on the yellow folder in the Save as box, then opening it)

kimsland,

Thank you for responding to my posts.

You can get rid of the big pics. I only send them so you (or anyone else) can see what I'm seeing when I try to do the stuff that I normally do.

But, I have one more pic regarding to your suggestion above.

When I right click on any of the 4 "yellow folders" in the Save As box,



it doesn't do anything but ask "What's This?"

And when I opened up this window today, I noticed that there was a new/different IE5 folder name: 2ECZJCG3.

Just to let you know why I'm trying to find these damn IE5 folders, is that I like to have my computer cleaned out as much as possible. When I first purchased this notebook and got it up and running for my operations, the AVG scan would find about 90K files. Today, there are over 190K files and so the AVG scan, takes approximately 2 1/2 hours.

I'm looking at some different Register cleaner programs, but haven't gone there yet.

Again, thanks for your assistance.

Dane

 

[kimsland]

I have reduced the pics on every post of yours
Then linked the pics to your uploaded full size pics

I notice that you are putting IMG twice ie [IMG]
You only need one IMG (with square brackets) at the start, and one /IMG at the end

You can attach a [B]very [/B] reduced size of your Image, then highlight the entire reduced image including the IMG part, and then press this button => [IMG]https://www.techspot.com/vb/images/editor/createlink.gif and link to your full size Image link

This may take time (if you ever need to attach another pic - Which I hope not!) But looking above, can you see that this is worth it? Support can now actually read the posts by you!

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Regarding, no right click.

I forgot to say, that you would need to press the browse button
But I have as easier process (somewhat different)

#1 Having the Save As box on screen in front of you at the time
#2 Right Click on any White area in the Save As box
#3 Select "New"-> "Folder"
#4 Rename the New Folder to "TestingPDFfolder" (for convenience)
#5 After the folder is created, still with the Save As box opened...
#6 Click on Start->Search->All files and folders->Include Hidden and System files->TestingPDFfolder -> ok

Please note: Step #6 is not the exact process of searching Hidden and System files, on the entire C drive. I am hoping that you actually know how to Search for files. And know to start in C drive.

If you do not know how to search
Or if you cannot create a New Folder
Then you may need some basic Windows tuition

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By the way, what happened about the Saved Desktop PDF file from your Email?
Does it have a Adobe icon attached to it ? (confirming it is a Adobe file)

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I feel what you are trying to do, may be above your technical skills
Yes that's where the forum comes in, to help technically
But sadly we can not teach you on how to use your computer (saving; using Explorer; opening; searching; locating system\hidden\temp files etc)
Support can instruct you what to do though (and sometimes through this you can learn)

Please answer all of the above, read slowly - because you do always miss something
I personally do not need any more pics. I'm very smart, and I can visualize what you mean.

 

[TGTech]

Well I mentioned one way above (right clicking on the yellow folder in the Save as box, then opening it)

But you just provided a bit more detail
These PDF files that you're opening, where are you opening them from?

The PDF files are scanned into another computer in our company and then e-mailed them to me.

Dane

I suspect they are originally residing in the temporary location from Outlook Express, which uses similar (or same) location as IE

Here's the idea:
(note there are many ways of doing these steps)
Right click on the Outlook Express PDF attachment
Save to Desktop
Close Outlook Express
Close any Internet browser (IE; Firefox; you name it)
Run CCleaner again (as I see many Cookies in Temporary Internet Files again)
View your Desktop PDF file, and confirm that it is a PDF File (it will have the Adobe icon picture)
Double click on it, so Adobe opens it

Then Save As
It will highly likely, select Desktop or My Documents, as the location

Oh, and no more big pics, I'm already thinking of removing all these!

Well I mentioned one way above (right clicking on the yellow folder in the Save as box, then opening it)

But you just provided a bit more detail
These PDF files that you're opening, where are you opening them from?
I suspect they are originally residing in the temporary location from Outlook Express, which uses similar (or same) location as IE

Here's the idea:
(note there are many ways of doing these steps)
Right click on the Outlook Express PDF attachment
Save to Desktop
Close Outlook Express
Close any Internet browser (IE; Firefox; you name it)
Run CCleaner again (as I see many Cookies in Temporary Internet Files again)
View your Desktop PDF file, and confirm that it is a PDF File (it will have the Adobe icon picture)
Double click on it, so Adobe opens it

Then Save As
It will highly likely, select Desktop or My Documents, as the location

I have no trouble saving the files to folders where I want them. I'm just trying to find those damn IE5 folders that pop up when I'm doing the Save As from the Adobe Acrobat program

Dane

Oh, and no more big pics, I'm already thinking of removing all these!

I have reduced the pics on every post of yours
Then linked the pics to your uploaded full size pics

I notice that you are putting IMG twice ie [IMG]
You only need one IMG (with square brackets) at the start, and one /IMG at the end

You can attach a [B]very [/B] reduced size of your Image, then highlight the entire reduced image including the IMG part, and then press this button => [IMG]https://www.techspot.com/vb/images/editor/createlink.gif and link to your full size Image link

This may take time (if you ever need to attach another pic - Which I hope not!) But looking above, can you see that this is worth it? Support can now actually read the posts by you!

The way that I've been collecting the pictures, is using PrintKey to collect the screen shot and then save them to a folder. The I send the screen shots to Photobucket.com and then use the Insert Image button at the top of this window. So that's why they put the extra IMG's in the screen.

-----------------------

Regarding, no right click.

I forgot to say, that you would need to press the browse button
But I have as easier process (somewhat different)

#1 Having the Save As box on screen in front of you at the time
#2 Right Click on any White area in the Save As box
#3 Select "New"-> "Folder"
#4 Rename the New Folder to "TestingPDFfolder" (for convenience)
#5 After the folder is created, still with the Save As box opened...
#6 Click on Start->Search->All files and folders->Include Hidden and System files->TestingPDFfolder -> ok

Please note: Step #6 is not the exact process of searching Hidden and System files, on the entire C drive. I am hoping that you actually know how to Search for files. And know to start in C drive.

If you do not know how to search
Or if you cannot create a New Folder
Then you may need some basic Windows tuition

I created the TestPDFfolder to the IE5 folder and then did the search, including the Hidden files and folders, and the Search process, did not find the TestPDFfolder.

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By the way, what happened about the Saved Desktop PDF file from your Email?
Does it have a Adobe icon attached to it ? (confirming it is a Adobe file)

Yes, when I saved the PDF file to the Desktop, the file showd the Adobe Acrobat icon.

--------------------

I feel what you are trying to do, may be above your technical skills
Yes that's where the forum comes in, to help technically
But sadly we can not teach you on how to use your computer (saving; using Explorer; opening; searching; locating system\hidden\temp files etc)
Support can instruct you what to do though (and sometimes through this you can learn)

Please answer all of the above, read slowly - because you do always miss something
I personally do not need any more pics. I'm very smart, and I can visualize what you mean.

I have a cousin who has been working with computers since Radio Shack started selling the TRS-80 computer, and he wasn't able to find the IE5 folders in my computer either. So that's why I Googled the Content.IE5 folder. And I found the Techspot forum with this thread. So, I'll just keep hunting for these folders so I can get rid of them.

Dane

 

[kimsland]

So, I'll just keep hunting for these folders so I can get rid of them.

When quoting posts, there are also a few better ways of doing this

1. Do not reply to yourself (Note your 3 last posts merged) Use EDIT and then add to your reply
2. You don't actually need to quote the entire previous message (if at all)
Have a look how I have quoted you above, this is not your entire message, just the relevant part to my reply
3. You don't need to reply in red, in my quote
This is how you should do it:

These PDF files that you're opening, where are you opening them from?

The PDF files are scanned into another computer in our company and then e-mailed them to me.

Then Save As
It will highly likely, select Desktop or My Documents, as the location

I have no trouble saving the files to folders where I want them. I'm just trying to find those damn IE5 folders that pop up when I'm doing the Save As from the Adobe Acrobat program

can you see that this is worth it? Support can now actually read the posts by you!

The way that I've been collecting the pictures, is using PrintKey to collect the screen shot and then save them to a folder. The I send the screen shots to Photobucket.com and then use the Insert Image button at the top of this window. So that's why they put the extra IMG's in the screen.

Can you see that's a heck of a lot easier to read?


By the way, is your name Dane? (sorry I'm being sarcastic, and retorical)
You do not need to sign off with my name's Dane, all the time (unless you're 5 second Tom off the movie 50 first dates <-- ie WE ALL KNOW ALREADY)


Please "keep hunting" and let us know the outcome
(Geez, from big pics to big quotes, lets just say make it big nothing now!)

 

[Punkypinnk]

Hi. I'm new here, found this thread while searching for Content.IE5

Now there are a whole host of hidden folders in Content.IE5here, that do not normally show up. I believe the original thread starter and another poster were trying to ask for solutions to enable them to view and explore inside all these folders. Why is there such a need?

In my case, I'd rather stupidly opened a word document direct from my email, and upon completion of my work on the document, saved it under a new file name, but still INSIDE the hidden folder inside Content.IE5, which itself was inside Temporary Internet Files. Now this was quite a bit of effort and if I can retrieve it instead of redoing the work, why not?

Now onto the solution. I looked through 2 pages of what appears to be a complete failure of communication and increasing frustration, and I can only assume that a fair bit of ego is involved, knowing quite well the sort of smug self-superiority that IT and computer techie/nerds/experts around the world tend to have. In any case, the solution is simple.

When you open most folders, at the top there is a menu, and next to the help button, there should be a "Tools" menu.

Click on it, and choose "Folder options".

Once in that, click on the View tab, scroll down, look for "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)".

Uncheck this option, and you will be asked are you sure or something to that effect. Click yes.

Now Content.IE5 should be visible, and so are the hidden folders inside. Remember to also have selected the "show hidden files and folders" option.

Also remember that the reason Content.IE5 is hidden is because its a "protected operating system file". Im not exactly sure how essential it actually is to the OS, but in any case, once you've found whatever you were looking for or done whatever you wanted to do, check the "Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)" again.

Problem solved.

I run XP X64 Pro, btw. I also know that its been over 6 months since the last post, but since this was one of the 1st results turned up when googling "Content.IE5" I reckon posting a nice, simple and clear solution here might help anyone who has the same problem in future.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Emily

 

[billbobs]

Content.IE5 observations

This is not an "answer", but simply the way my system seems to behave.

An email attachment will be located it a subfolder of Content.IE5 until I do a "save as" to change the location.

Windows Explorer will not show Content.IE5 (or its subfolders) for the user who is logged in. This is regardless of the "show hidden files" setting, or any other setting I can find. The only way I can see these folders is to log in as another user, such as "administrator" if I normally log in as "user". This has nothing to do with priviledges, since the only way I can see the "administrator" account Content.IE5 is to log in as "user".

Don't know why it works this way, it just does.