I've tried both locking the folder and changing permissions on it, and both approaches have unhappily resulted in many Console entries such as this one:

Code:
11/20/10 2:13:48 AM	[0x0-0x15b15b].com.apple.Safari[1253]	ImageIO: could not open '/Users/artie/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Webpage Previews/.532AF04D3CB00E5E21C6A7A2B5387722.png-48LM'

(At the moment, "1079 of 4000 messages from 11/17/10 6:15:06PM to 11/20/10 2:14:06AM" are variations of that message.)

Both AppleScripts that have been posted both look like they'll leave me in the same position, so I'm wondering whether there's any way to both have my cake and eat it, i.e. prevent the images from being created/cached and not see all those Console messages?

Thanks.

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