Netscape tip--deltree

[Cate Carr]

Something to remember if you make deletion of tmp files automatic ...

I had a user call me trying to recover a document that she had been 
working on when her computer (running Win 3.x) locked up forcing her 
to reboot.  She couldn't figure out why the document was not 
recoverable when she was using an autosave function to save every 10 
minutes.  

Much of the software running under Win 3.x save backup files in the
system temp directory but don't clean-up and delete the temporary
files when you exit.  Because of this our systems people chose to
include a delete command in the autoexec.bat to clean out the
temporary files.  When the user rebooted the locked up machine the
delete command deleted her document backup file along with all the 
other temporary files.

Though I agree wholeheartedly with wiping out netscape/IE cache 
files, I would be leary of indiscriminately deleting the temp 
files along with them.  If you do it automatically you may lose a 
needed backup when the system does fail!


	
> Here is a good tip for Netscape and for deleting cache files
> automatically for all Windows machines.
> 
> Under the Options menu, go to Network and set the cache directory to
> something like C:\temp.  Then put the following line in your
> autoexec.bat as the first line of the file:
> 
> deltree/y C:\temp\*.* C:\windows\temp\*.* 
> 
> This command deletes all of the files in the two temp directories. 
> This serves two purposes:
> 
> 1. Cleans out the cahce
> 2. Gets rid of windows temorary files that tend to hang around for
> some reason or another.
> 
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Cate Carr  Presentation Graphics    ccarr at pitt.edu
           Dept. of Surgery         http://www.pitt.edu/~ccarr/
           Univ. of Pittsburgh      (412) 624-1426
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