Viewing temporary internet files

I am looking to keep track of internet use by other users (my daughter) on my computer. On my PC the Internet Explorer had temp files that I could view. This allowed me to see time, date, and content of any internet activity on my comuter. Is there any such way that I can moniter activity on my Mac?

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Short of installing 3rd party software to regulate/monitor internet activity, the only record of her activity will be the Safari History file (shows the date, but not the time) accessed via the Menu Bar>History. However, there is nothing that precludes her from erasing the contents of the file. Sometimes 3rd party routers maintain a log of sites visited, however, this information can be somewhat lacking too.
An alternative would be to install a 3rd party application such as SafeEyes.

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what's called temporary internet files in windows are called the "Cache" in Mac and you can find these files by going to your HOME folder then LIBRARY then CACHES and then finally SAFARI
When you open the Safari cache folder you will see more folders inside these folders are the temp internet files (windows) or Cache (Mac) when you find the individual files you can open them in text edit the safari cache only holds about 20 MB's
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Should it go gray after you first empty the caches as you just emptied it and there should be nothing left to empty?
No. It'll remain selectable (in black) regardless of the state of the cache.
Also is there a folder that contains the files, so that you can physically view if there are any that have not been delieted.
Yes there is…
~/Library/Caches/Safari
… where ~ means your home directory.

Temporary Internet Files Settings. Sun JVM 1.5.0_05

Hiya
We are migrating our Oracle Forms 6i (Client-Server) application to web based Oracle Forms 10g. This is a 3 tier architecture. The application runs using Java Applet (Sun JRE 1.5.0_05) in Internet Explorer on Windows XP.
Oracle Forms 10g uses Java classes for its own purpose which Oracle has supplied them in a JAR files.
Oracle recommends that we should cache these JAR files onto the client machine in order to load the application faster.
We have followed that recommendation. The application is working well and the JAR files are also getting cached onto the client machine.
So far so good. But the real problem begins now.
On Windows XP, the Sun JRE caches these JAR files under the users' profiles settings. Precisely the path reads as below:
Documents and Settings\<userid>\Application data\Sun\Java\Deployment\Cache\javaapi\v1.0\jar
Storing these files has got two disadvantages:
1) Traffic, Bandwidth and Time : Since our users have got the roaming profile, all the files under their profile moves with their Login into Windows and log-off from Windows. Not only does this traffic incur network round trip between a PC and server, it also consumes the precious bandwidth and considerable amount of time when they login into the Windows.
2) Storage Space : As per our oraganisation's policy, each user's profile is allocated 8MB of space. The total size of all the JAR files is about 4MB which leaves them with almost no space in their profile and it frequently pops-up an annoying message *"You have exceeded your profile storage space...".*
The solution to above two problems is that we store these JAR files into some other folder for e.g. C:\temp.
Changing the location of Temporary files can be done in two ways:
Solution 1) Either by going to Java Control Panel -> General tab -> Temporary Internet Files -> Settings.
OR
Solution 2) By going into deployment.properties file which resides under the Documents and Settings\<userid>\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment folder.
However, Solution 1 is not feasible considering we have got more than 1000 users. Hence it is ruled out.
Solution 2 is also not feasible since deployment.properties file gets created ONLY after the Java applet is loaded first time when the user hits URL of our application.
In view of the limitations of above two solutions, we are looking for the Registry settings of Sun JRE in which we can specify the location of temporary files for Java.
While Googling for the Registry key, I found that in the previous version of Sun JRE i.e. 1.4.2, there was a registry key called USER_JPI_PROFILE.
I tried creating this environment variable in the Registry but it didn't work. I suppose that Sun has de-supported this environment variable with the version 1.5.
Our application has not gone into production yet. But the above two issues pose a serious threat to the implementation of our application.
So here comes my question to you. Is there any Registry settings you are aware of that serves my purpose ?
Also, other than the Registry Settings, if by any other means my original problem (storing the temp. files in other folder) could be resolved, please let me know.
Any of your ideas/suggestions/help will be much appreciated and are most welcome.
Thank you for your time for reading such a long thread !!
Cheers
Mayur

Please see my answer on the thread [http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10391222|http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10391222].

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Where are the Temporary Internet Files in Vista.
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keep loading the
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Temporary Internet Files in Java Application

Hello,
I would like to know how to use "Temporary Internet Files" in a Java application.
When I make a Java Applet that fetch some internet files and launch it from internet browsers,
the fetched files are cached in "C:\Documents and Settings\***\Application Data\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0"
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fetching code from a Java application, no files are cached in the directory.
Is it possible to enabling cache with a Java application?
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fos = null;Edited by: mirror_j on Jan 28, 2009 12:22 AM

mirror_j wrote:
I would like to know what the caching feature is build in.As I said "You cannot enable it as it is not a built in feature."
This is not strictly correct. You can use LinkedHashMap for a simple cache, but its not a persisted cache so wouldn't be very useful for you.
I suggest you look at using ehcache. It free and widely used.

Cannot access Temporary Internet Files

Hello;
I am logged on with admin privs, I run Windows Explorer as admin, and have set security properties for all folders, yet I still cannot get access to my OWN Temporary Internet Files folder.
Sure, I have just come over to Win7 from XP Pro, and there is a huge difference in security, but I have always thought that when you are the computer's administrator, you have access to ALL files and folders.
My computer is not a member of a domain at this time.
I know that I can delete the files through IE, and by Disk Cleanup, so it's more curiosity than anything else that I need to know this.
I already own the Windows7 Resource kit, but so far I cannot find anything in there about this.
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