index.dat

[seti]

What's this file's story? I've searched the board and found various references, but not enough to get a true understanding of it.

I'd probably leave it well enough alone...but the fact that Speed Disk has it as "unmovable" just makes it too intriguing to ignore.

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[Gomer]

not sure what it does myself. I have three copies on my HD, one in cookies, one in temp. internet, and one in apllication data\microsoft/internet explorer. 2 of these get deleted on a regular basis with no ill affects. Cookies and temp internet are wiped via dos and deltree about once a week. Usually after a week the Index.dat in temp. internet is about a meg in size.

[daveleau]

It appears to be a file that indexes cookies. Not sure.

Check this, this is it: http://www.winmag.com/fixes/ie/iecache2.htm http://www.windows-help.net/bbs/Forum2/HTML/007578.html http://www.cookiecentral.com/board/messages/7003.html

[wyvrn]

index.dat is found in the same folder as your cookies, so I would assume it is related.

[Beemers]

File Ferret has an AdvertCacheindex.dat as well in its cache folder in Temp. Indexing cookis is what I have always believed as well.

Cheers!