04-04-2003, 08:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Empty Your TEMP Folder On Each Soft Reset
http://www.scottandmichelle.net/scott/cestuff.html
If you have never manually deleted all of the files in your \TEMP folder on your Pocket PC, you probably have quite a mess in there. Applications are supposed to clean up after themselves but all to often they leave temporary files laying around. Once you soft reset, you can safely delete them without worrying about losing any data, or you can install ClearTemp. It is a great little 4K free utility that you can drop in your \Windows\Start Up folder. Everytime your Pocket PC is soft reset, ClearTemp will erase whatever is in the \TEMP folder.
While you are there, check out the other apps Scott has. Pocket Nav, Keep Alive, Launcher. I've used them all and still have some of them on my Pocket PC. If you like what you've downloaded, PayPal him a few dollars for his efforts.
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04-04-2003, 12:44 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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One problem with the program: no way to exlude files. Pocket Notepad uses a temp file to store whatever was in the file when you closed it.
I use the launcher applet, can't live without it. Once I turn old enough, I have to donate to these projects :P
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04-04-2003, 01:32 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Thanks for the info. I'll try cleartemp. Two months ago I realized my temp folder had tens of thousands of files in it! Took me several hours to delete everything and regain several Mbs. 8O
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04-04-2003, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted by sponge
One problem with the program: no way to exlude files. Pocket Notepad uses a temp file to store whatever was in the file when you closed it.
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You should contact the author of Pocket Notepad. Apps should never use the TEMP folder once the app is closed, much less after a soft reset.
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04-04-2003, 02:03 PM
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Swami
Join Date: May 2004
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Clearing the Temp directory
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Originally Posted by ramonD
Thanks for the info. I'll try cleartemp. Two months ago I realized my temp folder had tens of thousands of files in it! Took me several hours to delete everything and regain several Mbs. 8O
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Just use Explore in ActiveSync, navigate to the Temp directory, select all of the files and delete them.
Steve
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04-04-2003, 02:15 PM
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Re: Clearing the Temp directory
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Originally Posted by Pony99CA
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Originally Posted by ramonD
Thanks for the info. I'll try cleartemp. Two months ago I realized my temp folder had tens of thousands of files in it! Took me several hours to delete everything and regain several Mbs. 8O
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Just use Explore in ActiveSync, navigate to the Temp directory, select all of the files and delete them. |
Or install ClearTemp and soft reset.
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04-04-2003, 04:16 PM
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Moderator
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While we know there are alternative products available out there, please refrain from posting about them here. Feel free to start another discussion about them in the "Software" forum...
Steven Cedrone
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04-04-2003, 06:03 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Is there a program to delete "temporary internet files" from the windows directory? I would love that.
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04-04-2003, 11:23 PM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Steve - I personally find it very useful to hear about alternatives in these sorts of discussions. I believe that it is very much on topic and is beneficial. I would probably not read about it otherwise.
Isn�t it fair enough to talk about other ways of doing things? After all, 'On topic' can be taken too far. :?:
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04-05-2003, 01:08 AM
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Moderator
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Originally Posted by PDA Gerbil
Steve - I personally find it very useful to hear about alternatives in these sorts of discussions. I believe that it is very much on topic and is beneficial. I would probably not read about it otherwise.
Isn�t it fair enough to talk about other ways of doing things? After all, 'On topic' can be taken too far. :?:
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Look at it this way: if you wrote an app (or more to the point, slaved over an app), would you want people to post about alternative apps in your front page thread on any web site (not just 'Thoughts)???
Just think about it...
Steve
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