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Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited)
Authored by: techman on Apr 30, '05 11:43:48AM

Apparently QuickTime 7 has changed the temp folder that it uses. Does anyone have any ideas on how to locate the new temp folder?



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Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited)
Authored by: Technophobe on May 01, '05 08:59:44PM

Yes.. somehow QT 7 deletes the file? because I have searched for invisible files created "today" and cannot find any cached files that would work when making them visible and changing the extension to ".mov".
I booted to another partition on my computer with the old Quicktime 6 running and found the invisible files easily. QTPluginTemp####. Copied the fille and pasted it on the desktop (or anywhere in your hard drive) and rename it with ".mov" extension, viola! it works.

There is a way to revert to QuickTime 6.5.2:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/quicktime652reinstallerformac.html
If anyone else can figure this out with QT7 please post.
I already bought the Pro version...but I don't like not being able to get these QT movies like we did in QT6



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Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited)
Authored by: techman on May 01, '05 11:21:04PM

Is it possible that it is saving the file outside my account access?

I tried this method:

First I created a temporary file named testfile using the command touch:

touch testfile

Then I played a video from the iTunes music store.

Then I searched for all files newer then testfile;

find . -type f -newer testfile -print

It only gave me files in the Safari cache and one file in the Library/Cache/Quicktime/downloads/7/14/

I tried renaming it, but it would not play.

Perhaps it is putting the temp file somewhere outside my account access.



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Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited)
Authored by: ulause on May 26, '05 08:03:04PM

example:
/Users/your_user_name/Library/Caches/QuickTime/downloads/15/01/f1d3dfa7-26294d80-487133b5-c7420ecf.qtch



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Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies (revisited)
Authored by: ulause on May 26, '05 08:38:27PM

Sorry it does not work. The QuickTime Player does not recognize that type of file.



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