# How big is your Temporary Internet Files folder?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303
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**Created:** [June 16, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303 "2004-06-16T19:12:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@ScriptFlipper](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ScriptFlipper)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/1 "2004-06-16T19:12:12Z")
I just noticed my temp folder has 12,383 files in it and consumes 166mb of my disk space… So, how big is yours? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/2 "2004-06-16T19:13:26Z")
I clean it up like every week from now.
The first time I did disk cleanup - it gave me back a gigabyte :thumb:.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/3 "2004-06-16T19:15:08Z")
Mine is 169MB and it contains 14,955 files. I bet half of the 169MB came from looking at SOTW entries haha 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/4 "2004-06-16T19:17:08Z")
Sharif: whoa, that’s extremely big… before you cleaned it, that is 😉
lol @ kirupa 😉
hasn’t you got school-stuff to do? 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/5 "2004-06-16T19:19:05Z")
> [@ScriptFlipper](#):
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> lol @ kirupa 😉
> hasn’t you got school-stuff to do?
I’ve been out of school for 3 weeks now 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/6 "2004-06-16T19:20:33Z")
last time I did a disk cleanup was like a year ago :ne:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/7 "2004-06-16T19:22:57Z")
> [@kirupa](#):
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> I’ve been out of school for 3 weeks now 😛
We finished last week on friday 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/8 "2004-06-16T19:30:07Z")
Mine’s only 20MB, but that’s because I’m crazy about disk space and clean it at least once a day.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 7:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/9 "2004-06-16T19:55:27Z")
Mine is cleaned every time I start up the web brower, so there’s probably about five files in there right now.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/10 "2004-06-16T20:03:23Z")
same here.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/11 "2004-06-16T20:05:30Z")
Well do I have a story to tell :!:
I cleaned my Temporary Internet Files out way back. Well that’s what I thought but Microsucks keept some secret log with IE (I had stop using IE a while earlier) that explorer could not see. But when I when to the addressbar and added /content.ie5/ to it, there was about 16 more folders in there. I only checked one of them and it had like ~1500000 files in it.😱
So I started deleting them all, I spent a sunday doing that. At the end I got [size=5]9gigabyte [size=2]more space on my C. The worst is the this wasn’t my [/size][/size]Temporary Internet Files but some stupid log!?!
[size=5][size=2]
So burn IE:bad: Long live FireFox :party:
[/size][/size]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/12 "2004-06-16T20:19:41Z")
Yup, that’s the secret IE temp folder 😉
But geeeeez - 9 gig? that’s harsh! Boooooourns M$
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/13 "2004-06-16T20:31:08Z")
Firefox is bad in my book because it’s visibility property through javascript is broken ☹
[but](http://www.domainkarl.com/menu/) I have 4,480 files
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/14 "2004-06-16T20:34:08Z")
it seems that ad-aware deletes em all :-p or sumthing along those lines… I only found 5 files 🙂
oops i double-posted :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/15 "2004-06-16T20:49:54Z")
i haven’t emptied mine since I had to reboot my whole system, which was like 2 years ago. Their is something like 22,000 files. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/16 "2004-06-16T20:53:54Z")
5.3 gig… 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2004, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/17 "2004-06-16T21:46:55Z")
i clean mine like once or twice a day. i’m sort of compulsive w/it. i limit it to 20 mb, but it never gets that high.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/18 "2004-06-17T00:17:42Z")
Master64, what is the path to that directory?
Is it:
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/19 "2004-06-17T05:44:46Z")
> [@Krilnon](#):
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> Master64, what is the path to that directory?
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> Is it:
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> C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5
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> ?
yup
that what i did.
Well that only works in XP and 2000 i think the MS os’s that don’t have DOS any more. The older one’s you have to do it throw DOS.🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-big-is-your-temporary-internet-files-folder/113303/20 "2004-06-17T06:19:05Z")
i limit the storage to 10mb. Although if you increase it, you would be able to store more of course but its a pain when you actually want to empty it.
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