Re: Capturing downloaded videos and other temporary stuff?
- From: paulfuchs@porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs)
- Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:41:57 -0400
AES <siegman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A while back someone (sorry, lost the link) posted the recipe appended
below for downloading YouTube videos. My question: Is looking inside
the /private/var/tmp/ folder a more general recipe for capturing other
kinds of temporarily download stuff?
I can get to this folder OK, and see all kinds of stuff labelled "tmp"
inside it, but I don't see anything labelled folders.501, and haven't
succeeded in identifying any of the others.
Are any of these likely to be the residues of other temporary music,
text, or video downloads?
Earlier post (lightly edited):
Select your video from Youtube and let it load completely. Then select
Go to Folder from Finder's Go menu and enter this:
/private/var/tmp/
You will now be inside one of the several hidden folders that make up
the innards of OS X. Inside here is a folder called folders.501 - if
you are not the primary owner, i.e., owner of the first account set up
on the computer, it could be called folders.502, folders.503 or
similar.
You will see a file called TemporaryItemsFlashTmp0000 - drag this to
the desktop and rename appropriately it with a .flv file extension.
You now have your video. Loading another video from YouTube
overwrites this temp file - repeat to taste.
Works great. The one extra thing I would recommend is that you make
a dock folder of "Temporary items." Saves a lot of time.
Note that this file will not turn up in a search as it lives in one of
the hidden UNIX folders that Spotlight doesn't index.
I am the one who posted, or actually reposted, these directions. I
still use it constantly and it works great. However, following the
total path, I have on my computer:
HD/private/var/tmp/folders.501/Temporaryitems/FlashTmp0
It is the flashtemp0 file which caches the last youtube download. When
you start your next video, it overwrites, so if you want to archive,
pull this file to your desktop, rename it, and add a .flv. I use MPEG
Streamclip to watch them and it works flawlessly. I assume that it only
works for flash media, and youtube is exclusively flash.
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