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What makes this method interesting is that you can make the hard link at any moment while the movie is being downloaded from your browser. A hard link means that those two file are actually the same file referenced with two names ("links" in UNIX jargon) from different folders (UNIX directories). That command creates a "hard link" between the "QTPluginTemp." file and "MyMovie.mov" on your Desktop. Then, find the "QTPluginTemp." file you want to keep, and type Where UID is your user ID (you can find out your own UID with the "id" UNIX command). IMHO, using the UNIX command line is far easier and straightforward: fire up Terminal.app and type:

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Typically, the first user created on a Mac OS X system gets assigned the UID 501, but other users will get different UIDs. That "501" is not a magic number it's the UID (user ID). Heck, if you are really adventurous, you could write an AppleScript, that performs Step 3, then Step 2 and you would never have to touch the file at all! But this exercise is left to the reader. For the really fancy among you, you could write an AppleScript, and attach it to the "TemporaryItems" folder using FolderActions, that would look for new files that start with "QTPluginTemp" and automatically move them to a special folder for later processing of Step 3.

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If you download QT movies a lot, then another time saver would be to make an alias to the "TemporaryItems" folder so that you don't have to do Step 2 every time. Notice that Panther not only renamed the file to MyMovie.mov, it also automatically changed the icon and made the default application to be QuickTime Player! So all you have to do now is get the popcorn, double click the file and watch the movie! No muss, no fuss and no UNIX code!

A warning box will pop up asking "Are you sure you want to add the extension ".mov" to the end of the name?" Then it goes on to explain all of the scary things that could happen if you do this.

Click Enter again to make the new name stick.

Rename the file to MyMovie.mov (you can use replace MyMovie with any text that you like, but the.

Click on the file and press the "Enter" key so you can rename it.

I have one called "Downloads" that I use.

Move (or copy) the file to any folder you like.

For the sake of this example, let's call this file: "QTPluginTemp3763600". It will have bunch of other random numbers and letters in the name - just ignore those. Look thru the files until you find one that starts with the name "QTPluginTemp". Typically, you can't see this folder without using UNIX commands via Terminal. The Finder will present you with a window showing all of the files that are temporarily stored in this folder. A dialog box opens that asks you to enter the path name to the folder you want to go to. Under the Go menu, you will see "Go to Folder.". This will place a cached copy of the QT movie in the folder /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/. Using any web browser (I tested this using Safari), play a QuickTime movie from a website that typically does not allow you to save the movie.

Read the rest of the hint for the remainder of the how-to.

From now on, it will continue to cache the QT files. Next, check "Save movies in disk cache," then close System Preferences. This is accomplished by opening System Preferences, then clicking on the QuickTime icon. However, the advent of Panther and one of its new menu features ("Go to Folder.") has made saving QT files even simpler and requires no UNIX knowledge.Īs noted in the original hint, the first thing to do is to make sure that "Save movies in disk cache" has been activated. Back in 2001, macosxhints published a really neat solution for saving QuickTime (QT) movies from web pages (please see: Save 'unsavable' QuickTime movies for the details).