Cookies are deleted that should be kept

[Morgane]

Since using CCleaner v2.09, cookies get deleted that are in the "Cookies to keep" list.

 

However, I'm not quite certain that it really is a CCleaner problem, though I didn't explicitely change any system settings and this did never happen before updating to v2.09.

 

I have discovered that apart from "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Cookies" there seems to be a "secondary" cookie folder in "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Local Settings\Temp\Cookies" that I am quite certain had never been there before. And it seems this new folder is suddenly used by IE (and, of course, purged by CCleaner). However, I have checked the path designations for system folders and there the correct folder "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Cookies" is specified. So why, then, is IE using the "Temp" cookie folder, and why does this use correlate with updating CCleaner from v2.08 to v2.09?

 

(As a temporary workaround, a hve included the "Temp" cookie folder in CCleaner's "Exclude" list, but that is not a satisfactory solution.)

 

I would be very grateful for any help!

 

(Using WinXP Pro SP3 with IE6.)

[davey]

Since using CCleaner v2.09, cookies get deleted that are in the "Cookies to keep" list.

 

However, I'm not quite certain that it really is a CCleaner problem, though I didn't explicitely change any system settings and this did never happen before updating to v2.09.

 

I have discovered that apart from "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Cookies" there seems to be a "secondary" cookie folder in "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Local Settings\Temp\Cookies" that I am quite certain had never been there before. And it seems this new folder is suddenly used by IE (and, of course, purged by CCleaner). However, I have checked the path designations for system folders and there the correct folder "C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Cookies" is specified. So why, then, is IE using the "Temp" cookie folder, and why does this use correlate with updating CCleaner from v2.08 to v2.09?

 

(As a temporary workaround, a hve included the "Temp" cookie folder in CCleaner's "Exclude" list, but that is not a satisfactory solution.)

 

I would be very grateful for any help!

 

(Using WinXP Pro SP3 with IE6.)

Hi again Morgane,

Yes,it is strange to get this "temp" cookie folder.You might want to Rename that folder or even the Temp folder itself and see if it is recreated somehow.

In my career I have seen OS's do many strange things when someone uses "reserved" words as part of a file name.Windows seems to have been purposely designed to deal with certain situations on it's own and never give any indication that something strange has taken place.My OS was certainly beaten up by 3 1/2 years of neglect and "crashes".Just on a guess I would do some "searches" on file names with "cookie"(without the S) in them.You may find a number of empty "cookies" files.Some of these files could have been extracted in a download.Who knows?

Keep in touch.

Thanks for your report,

davey

[YoKenny]

I don't have the problem of saved cookies being deleted on my XP Home nor Pro systems but I don't use IE6 as IE7 has many of the features that I have come to like such as phishing filter and pop-up blocker:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...e3b4aa1033.mspx

 

I also use IE7Pro for its added features to IE7:

http://www.ie7pro.com

 

I see cookies in:

C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files

 

I don't have:

"C:\Documents and Settings\My_Name\Local Settings\Temp\Cookies