retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain the
cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.

Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

"frankg" <whosoever@wherever.com> wrote in message
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> During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain the
> cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
> frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.

Go through the folder manually once and mark the ones you want to keep as
read only. I haven't tried this (I'm on Firefox, and only allow session
cookies), so if there is a clever MS "gotcha" about cookies, you may get
bitten. I'm confident this would work though.

Dan





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Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

> > During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain
the
> > cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
> > frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.
>
> Go through the folder manually once and mark the ones you want to keep as
> read only. I haven't tried this (I'm on Firefox, and only allow session
> cookies), so if there is a clever MS "gotcha" about cookies, you may get
> bitten. I'm confident this would work though.
>
nope, i changed the properties of one example to read only (from archive)
but it could still be deleted

Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

set internet explorer to block all cookies, except for the sites that you
want to keep the cookies for. If you run accross a site that doesn't work
without cookies, add it to the list of sites that you allow cookies from.
Works good for me, seems about 95% of websites work fine with their cookies
blocked..

"frankg" <whosoever@wherever.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>
>> > During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain
> the
>> > cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
>> > frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.
>>
>> Go through the folder manually once and mark the ones you want to keep as
>> read only. I haven't tried this (I'm on Firefox, and only allow session
>> cookies), so if there is a clever MS "gotcha" about cookies, you may get
>> bitten. I'm confident this would work though.
>>
> nope, i changed the properties of one example to read only (from archive)
> but it could still be deleted
>
>

Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

"frankg" <whosoever@wherever.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>
> > > During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain
> the
> > > cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
> > > frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.
> >
> > Go through the folder manually once and mark the ones you want to keep
as
> > read only. I haven't tried this (I'm on Firefox, and only allow session
> > cookies), so if there is a clever MS "gotcha" about cookies, you may get
> > bitten. I'm confident this would work though.
> >
> nope, i changed the properties of one example to read only (from archive)
> but it could still be deleted

was this deleting from internet options, or from explorer? Which ever you
tried (I'm guessing Internet OPtions), try the other and see what happens.
Apart from that, I'd say go the way suggested by Jamco

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Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

CookiPal
http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:54:03 -0400, in
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frankg scrawled:

>During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain the
>cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
>frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.
>
>

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Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

It's your published maintenance routine that i use (ie cache, hdvalet, etc.)
and that wipes out my needed 'sign in' sites - so this little app will do
the trick then ?

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"°Mike°" <qp_mike_qp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> CookiPal
> http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 07:54:03 -0400, in
> <be7dd.45973$JG5.456199@news20.bellglobal.com>
> frankg scrawled:
>
> >During a maintenance clean-up, what app or method do you use to retain
the
> >cookies you actually want to keep, for sites you have to sign into
> >frequently? Manually selecting them is tedious.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

If you followed my routine correctly you wouldn't be
deleting cookies manually, but yes, it will do the trick
because you will not get *any* cookies on your system
that you don't want...period. I use it.


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:05:10 -0400, in
<zusdd.25798$J16.1162731@news20.bellglobal.com>
frankg scrawled:

>It's your published maintenance routine that i use (ie cache, hdvalet, etc.)
>and that wipes out my needed 'sign in' sites - so this little app will do
>the trick then ?
>
>"°Mike°" <qp_mike_qp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:4178c0e6.40236796@localhost.dot.net...
>> CookiPal
>> http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html

<snip>

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Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

To the letter Mike, I'm a faithful follower :-)
I don't delete them manually.
But after each maintenance routine - my login / sign-in priviledges to
particular sites are gone. Maybe I'm mistaken about where these 'user name'
and 'passwords' logins are kept on my machine.


> If you followed my routine correctly you wouldn't be
> deleting cookies manually, but yes, it will do the trick
> because you will not get *any* cookies on your system
> that you don't want...period. I use it.
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 08:05:10 -0400, in
> <zusdd.25798$J16.1162731@news20.bellglobal.com>
> frankg scrawled:
>
> >It's your published maintenance routine that i use (ie cache, hdvalet,
etc.)
> >and that wipes out my needed 'sign in' sites - so this little app will do
> >the trick then ?
> >
> >"°Mike°" <qp_mike_qp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:4178c0e6.40236796@localhost.dot.net...
> >> CookiPal
> >> http://www.kburra.com/cpal.html
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Re: retaining certain cookies during maintenance routine?
 

But you said: "Manually selecting them is tedious."?!


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:47:25 -0400, in
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frankg scrawled:

>To the letter Mike, I'm a faithful follower :-)
>I don't delete them manually.
>But after each maintenance routine - my login / sign-in priviledges to
>particular sites are gone. Maybe I'm mistaken about where these 'user name'
>and 'passwords' logins are kept on my machine.

<snip>

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