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starkinter

I've got a folder full of a fuckload of tiny files

I've just noticed that over the past few months Opera browser seems to have lost its fucking mind, and now the folder:

C:\Documents and Settings[Me]\Local Settings\Application Data\Opera\Opera\cache\sesn

is full of tens (hundreds?) of thousands of tiny .tmp files.

Is there any better way of getting rid of this monstrosity than what I'm doing now?

Posted Sep 10, 2010, 1:11 AM UTC · edited

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szb•

Run CMD:

del /f /q sesn

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starkinterOP•

That worked perfect, thanks. And took way less than 168 minutes.

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dmightx•

How does command prompt know what directory to erase? Or are you supposed to modify this to direct it to the actual path?

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szb•

I assumed OP was comfortable cd'ing to the cache folder and then running the command. But otherwise, yes you need to point it to the folder.

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dmightx•

Thank you for letting me know. I was just curious.

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LycanElite•

Google: Environment Variables

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fireflash38•

Default checks for the current directory, if you were to give it the full path it would delete it that way.

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[deleted]•

Why does the GUI delete function suck so much dick compared to the CLI version? Oh, right, Microsoft.

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voxAtrophia•

CCleaner is usually good at removing temp files. I'm pretty sure it clears Opera's cache as well.

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starkinterOP•

Yeah, I run that fairly regularly. I think something's wrong with my installation of Opera because it's already made another 1280 .tmp files in that directory since I emptied it.

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scientologist2•

  • update your opera

  • set your cache prefences. You might want to "empty on exit"

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TheWizardsCock•

Use Chrome.

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