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On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:14:42 -0500, David W. Hodgins kindly wrote:
> I have no idea if it still works, but windows users may want to try
> O4FE from http://users.westelcom.com/jsegur/
Thank you for that reminder!
I just downloaded and started it up,
then selected "Open cache"
Well, the first thing to notice is,
that it can't even navigate to my "Application Data" folder,
no less from there into my Opera profile.
So one has to "unhide" the "Application Data" folder
(against Windows' best judgment) to get any further.
By the way, is there any way to set O4FE to always start
in the right folder to begin with,
to avoid having to manually navigate there every time?
After following the "8.3" filenames down to my "cache4" folder,
O4FE does see "dcache4.url"
And it does then list the cache files!
HOWEVER, is it not looking directly at the _folder_
to find these files, because no other Windows application I can find
can see anything but 20 bytes of content in "dcache4.url,"
so how does O4FE leap over that problem?
(does this issue in any manner relate to my disk being
NTFS file system, with possible "alternate data streams"?)
As someone else already noted, I also see some files
which O4FE indicates as "Type GZ" (compressed),
which can't be opened, but (a) Windows can't open these
directly from cache either, and (b) most "GZ" files
in my current cache are either text-based or GIFs,
while all the rest are apparently uncompressed.
When I double-click a cached image file in O4FE,
it does open in my "Windows Picture and Fax Viewer,"
but this is still in 9.27 here, where extensions are still present,
so the crucial question is: did these images open with the
correct program only because they still have an "associated" extension,
or does O4FE know how to find the right program,
even without the presence of the extension?
I guess I'll have to wait for a 9.5 user (on XP or Vista) to try O4FE,
to get the answer to this suspenseful "cliff-hanger" question :)
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