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Authored by: Loren on Aug 14, '02 10:46:16AM

Check out http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20011102145549654

The long and short of it is, whenever I go to a site with a movie I want to save, while the movie is on my screen I run a terminal window and type the word "savemovie" and the .mov file is saved to my desktop as newmovie.mov.

usng info from that hint, I have aliased savemovie to the following command which works perfectly.

cp /tmp/501/Temporary\ Items/QT* ~/Desktop/newmovie.mov

Loren



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Good idea
Authored by: Titanium Man on Aug 16, '02 01:06:10PM

How about a dorky little script to add a touch more to the alias idea? Something like:

#!/bin/sh

ditto -rsrcFork /tmp/501/Temporary\ Items/QT* ~/Desktop/$1.mov

You could name the script whatever, but if it were called zmov, you could do:

zmov Two_Towers

and the trailer would be copied to your desktop and named "Two_Towers.mov"



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