On 10/11/12 6:11 PM, Daniel wrote: > David E. Ross wrote: >> On 10/11/12 4:52 AM, Daniel wrote: >>> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120826 >>> SeaMonkey/2.12 >>> >>> In the last few days, I've caught up on about two weeks of posts in >>> m.s.seamonkey and m.general, and somewhere, in those several hundred >>> posts, there was a post mentioning files and folders in SM's cache >>> folder, with names like along the lines of _CACHE_001_, _CACHE_MAP_, and >>> folders named (hexadecimally) 0 to F >>> >>> Unfortunately, after re-reading that message, I didn't re-mark it as >>> "Unread" so that I could easily find it, if necessary. >>> >>> From what I read in the post, someone (I think NoOp) said they were >>> caused by Windows and to just delete them, and not worry about it. So, >>> last night, after closing SM, I deleted the Cache folder. Tonight, >>> before I had started my SM browser, they were all back! >>> >>> Should I be worried about them re-appearing?? Or at all?? >>> >> >> There is a set of cache folders that are automatically created by >> SeaMonkey (not Windows) if they do not already exist. These are named >> with the hex numbers 0-F. This happens whether or not they are >> immediately required. If you clear your entire cache, these folders >> remain. >> > > Thanks for your reply, David, explains why, after deleting the Cache > folder in Win7 last night, I now have a set of the folders, etc, in > Cache this morning when I've booted into my Linux version. > > So now the questions is.....What is the purpose of all these directories?? >
Supposedly, having those specific directories always present improves the speed with which Gecko (the Core component of SeaMonkey and Firefox) maintains and uses the cache. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
