Internet Explorer is back

2006-12-23 00:28:17 | johann | #

My screenshot factories with Internet Explorer on Windows have been offline for most of the last month. After each restart, they would crash again quickly. Unfortunately, I could not investigate the problem directly because I'm still in Seattle.

Talking to my flatmates in Stuttgart on Skype, I have now finally found the problem: the hard drives were filled up with gigabytes of Temporary Internet Files in the browser cache. Old files in the cache didn't get deleted because the ShotFactory script kills Internet Explorer after each screenshot, without closing it properly.

So now we deleted the browser cache manually and restarted my Windows factories quad and sven with Internet Explorer 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 and 7.0. Hopefully they'll keep running until I return to Stuttgart in the beginning of January.