[Mac+]

Hi all,

OS X 10.3.9
Safari 1.3 (v312)

Been clearing the cache in order to reload some favicons that never seem to update (thanks Safari for still not being able to do this yet ... does it work in Tiger?) and came across the ~/Library/Caches/Safari folder.

Inside there are 15 other folders (or directories) with sub directories inside of them - all numbers, but I can't work out the reasoning behind the numbers.

I did manage to work out the iPhoto Library folder conventions - not hard really: year, month, day.

I'm stumped, however, by this folder heirarchy for Safari's caches.

Can anyone shed some light on it for me?
TIA.
Mac+

[Mac+]

Weird - now I've got the blue globes everywhere and not one of them has updated.

[Kickaha]

It's all handled by WebKit (WebCore? not sure which part), and it isn't designed to be human usable at all. Strictly for da machine.

IOW, I have no idea what the numbers mean.

[Paul]

Check the FAQ, I think I wrote something about those folders a little while ago. AFAICT they are used to keep the favicons in the left of the address bar... I set mine so the permissions don't allow anyone to write to the folder so safari has to keep them updated from the server.

[Mac+]

Thanks for the advice Paul - I did do a Search for favicons before posting this thread, but no explanations for the folders were to be found. As for the FAQ thread, thanks for the favicon folder tip - I am now following it ... but, as mentioned earlier, there are no favicons currently being loaded from the servers at all. Weird.

Blue globes forever? You don't know how helpful those favicons are until you delete the little guys.

[Mac+]

Believe it or not folks, I did restart my machine after deleting the cache files and relaunching Safari, but for the first time it did not reload the favicons.

This morning, however, back to normal.

Still, the issue of folder organisation is beyond me. (For the record too - it was 16 folders, I forgot to count folder 00). Anyway, I guess I'll leave it at that.