THIS TUTORIAL WILL COVER HOW TO SAVE FLASH VIDEOS FROM ANY SITE.
When you watch a video from youtube, google...ect the video once COMPLETELY downlaoded is ALREADY SAVED to your computer in a hidden directory. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS MOVE IT.
Use the TERMINAL application from applications/utilities folder...its easy. You will only need 3 commands: cd (change directory=change folder), ls (list whats in the folder), and cp (copy)
Tiger
*you can copy and paste these commands into the terminal window*
1. Start Terminal type "cd /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems" enter
2. This will take you to the folder with the flash video(s) type "ls" enter this will show the contents of the folder. (The flash videos will be FlashTmp1, FlashTmp2...and so on) Choose video 2 for example.
3. type "cp FlashTmp2 ~/Desktop" enter
THATS IT! The file will be moved to your desktop; play it with an flv player, covert it, delete it...ect.
Leopard (slightly more difficult)
1. Start Terminal type "cd /private/var/folders/" enter
2. Type "ls -R | grep "TemporaryItems" enter
it will give you the path for TemporaryItems folder .
3. Remove "./" from first of the path and enter to it by this command
Type "cd eeQUOonjE-GWvpRuzmR29+++TI/TemporaryItems" enter
4. This will take you to the folder with the flash video type "ls" enter this will show the contents of the folder. (The flash videos will be FlashTmp1, FlashTmp2...and so on) Choose video 2 for example.
5. type "cp FlashTmp2 ~/Desktop/FlashTemp2.flv" enter
THATS IT! The file will be moved to your desktop; play it, covert it, ect
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=403792
When you watch a video from youtube, google...ect the video once COMPLETELY downlaoded is ALREADY SAVED to your computer in a hidden directory. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS MOVE IT.
Use the TERMINAL application from applications/utilities folder...its easy. You will only need 3 commands: cd (change directory=change folder), ls (list whats in the folder), and cp (copy)
Tiger
*you can copy and paste these commands into the terminal window*
1. Start Terminal type "cd /private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems" enter
2. This will take you to the folder with the flash video(s) type "ls" enter this will show the contents of the folder. (The flash videos will be FlashTmp1, FlashTmp2...and so on) Choose video 2 for example.
3. type "cp FlashTmp2 ~/Desktop" enter
THATS IT! The file will be moved to your desktop; play it with an flv player, covert it, delete it...ect.
Leopard (slightly more difficult)
1. Start Terminal type "cd /private/var/folders/" enter
2. Type "ls -R | grep "TemporaryItems" enter
it will give you the path for TemporaryItems folder .
3. Remove "./" from first of the path and enter to it by this command
Type "cd eeQUOonjE-GWvpRuzmR29+++TI/TemporaryItems" enter
4. This will take you to the folder with the flash video type "ls" enter this will show the contents of the folder. (The flash videos will be FlashTmp1, FlashTmp2...and so on) Choose video 2 for example.
5. type "cp FlashTmp2 ~/Desktop/FlashTemp2.flv" enter
THATS IT! The file will be moved to your desktop; play it, covert it, ect
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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=403792
