![]() ![]() flv, and run it through whatever converter you wish to use. Now make a copy of the file by Option-dragging it to your Desktop. Figure out which file you want - there will only be one if you only have one YouTube page up. ![]() Open that folder, and then look for files named FlashTmp (they will end in a number). Drill down the various folders you see there until you find one that has a TemporaryItems folder within it. Open Finder and click Go » Go to Folder and enter /var/folders this will get you to the hidden folders. View the YouTube video as normal, pause it, and let it cache fully on the web page. I believe the first entry in /var/folders/ will always be in capital letters. The middle part is randomly generated, and will certainly vary for everyone. var » folders » V4 » V46lRYwnH3uc8gj98CH+t++++TQ » TemporaryItems » FlashTmp0 (If you are looking for other Safari Cache tools, there's a variety of tools to read the SQLite DB and retreive images and html from the database - Google and ye shall find.) After some digging, I found that my video file was stored here: Even if they were, they would be stored inside a SQLite database file, which is not very useful. Adobe FLV files used by the YouTube flash player are not stored in the Leopard 10.5 Safari cache. YouTube uses Adobe Flash file format *.flv files. The download would stall and timeout (pausing the Safari download and restarting it caused Safari to restart the download from the beginning - I suspect it was meant to be streamed only.) The download would work fine in the YouTube Flash player, and it would even cache fully within the web page. However, I had trouble with a large video one day, and found it was stored in the Google video cache. This still works in Leopard - most of the time. This previous hint explained how to download Flash videos in Safari via the Activity Viewer. ![]()
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