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#1 2009-04-23 21:21:52

Magnie
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Registered: 2007-12-12
Posts: 1000+

.idx files

I use to have 1.35 GB of them on my computer. NOW THAT'S A LOT OF SPACE.
I have done a few searches to see if they are safe to delete. I havn't really gotta any info if they are or not. But lots of people are asking the same question. I came to a topic (not on this website) and I read through it and a guy said "try to open them in notepad" and I did that and I saw that it had like: scratch static site thingy and I new instantly that it was from this site and I also saw one that said redware's site and 1 from Runescape. If anyone is wondering, YES they are safe to delete. *Is soo happen he deleted them and is happy to have 1.35 GB+ space.  big_smile  *

Info:
Some people say they appear on the desktop. I found mine in:
Application Data -> Sun -> Java -> Cache -> 6.0
And they were all there.
Warning: I do not know much about the "host" folder so don't delete that. But it is safe to delete the other folders. (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10, ext......)

How I found out:
I had like 100 MB left of space on my comp and it gets REALLY annoying when I have delete stuff. I know the Projects take a lot of space so I delete all the useless scratch data. But I always have less and less and less of space. So I went to:
Documents and Settings -> [username]
Selected each folder and right-clicked and selected properties and looked to see how much was used on it. If not more than a normal share I went to the next one until I found the folder that had an unusual amount of data taken. Then kept going until I found my solution. If any has a space problem here is the best answer/reason I bet there is.

Other info:
MB = Megabytes
GB = Gigabytes

GB is WAY more data than MB. Just in case you didn't know.

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#2 2009-04-24 18:18:55

Magnie
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Re: .idx files

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