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Capturing temporary files
Years ago, a helpful RPCA'er captured the Bubbels program from a temp
internet file while the program was running, and made a copy of the file to keep on her hard drive. She emailed me a copy of it so I could play it locally, too. Still have it! I'm trying this with another app, but it is not allowing me to do this. It's not a flash file, btw. I believe it is Java. But anyway, when I try to make a copy of the temporary file, I get an error message saying, "The file is in use by another program. Close any programs that might be using that file and try again". Of course, when I close the application, the temp file goes away. What is that, a joke? I can just hear the developer chortling about that. That temp file is harder to crack than a military encryption code! I can't copy it, I can't FTP it to another computer, I can't email it, I can't open the file using any file-reader. I can rename it and can even move it to another folder (which is really just renaming it anyway). I can even change the extension. The application knows the new name and keeps track of it, and when the app is closed, the renamed file is purged. At home I have Windows 2000 and at work it's XP. Same problem on both machines. And same problem whether I'm using IE or FireFox. (Although the temp files are stored in different places on the C: drive depending on the browser.) I'm sure this is a security measure, but there must be a way around it. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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Adrian wrote:
There is a plugin for Firefox called DownloadHelper, maybe you could use http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk Thanks, Adrian, I'll check that out. -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:20:09 +0000, bastXXXette wrote:
snip I'm sure this is a security measure, but there must be a way around it. Any suggestions? Thanks! Move the file to a flash drive, then pull the drive without unmounting it. Or, if it won't move, then change the Firefox temp file setting to the flash and pull the drive. That might crash something, but it should work. For that matter, you can insstall FF on the flash or other USB drive - there is a portabel Firefox version that works on removable media: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable. Once you clean up any crashes and plug the removable drive back in, the temp file should be intact unless bad luck caught it being written. -- T.E.D. ) MST (Missouri University of Science and Technology) used to be UMR (University of Missouri - Rolla). |
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Ted Davis wrote:
Move the file to a flash drive, then pull the drive without unmounting it. That's a great idea except that I don't have a flash drive. Yes, I do live in the Dark Ages. What if I did the same thing but moved it to a CD? Or would that automatically imply copying, not "moving"? Moving the file seems to be OK, as there is still only one copy after the move. And FF *knows* where that one copy is no matter where I move it. It's very careful about not letting you copy it. Copy requires that the file is readable, I guess, which is not allowed - that stupid file would be unreadable if you dropped a nuclear bomb on it. OK, bad analogy, but you get the idea. But "moving" is just a name change, which it does allow. Hmm... -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:30:01 +0000, bastXXXette wrote:
Ted Davis wrote: Move the file to a flash drive, then pull the drive without unmounting it. That's a great idea except that I don't have a flash drive. Yes, I do live in the Dark Ages. They are cheap ... but the cheap ones *are* cheap. My office mate borrows one of mine when he needs one. What if I did the same thing but moved it to a CD? Or would that automatically imply copying, not "moving"? It would be copying - moving on the same drive is simply a matter of changing the entries in the directory tables, but moving to a different drive requires actually copying the file and deleting the original. I think the reason the program keeps track of the file even if you rename it is that the file handle used to read/write an open file points to a structure containing the location on disk rather than a pointer to the name. It is probably impossible to copy an open file to another drive, and therefore to move one to a different drive. CDs are not actually very much read/write drives - they are mostly write once or a few times (with a lot of overhead) and read many drives. -- T.E.D. ) |
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Ted Davis wrote:
What if I did the same thing but moved it to a CD? Or would that automatically imply copying, not "moving"? It would be copying - moving on the same drive is simply a matter of changing the entries in the directory tables, but moving to a different drive requires actually copying the file and deleting the original. But isn't a flash drive also a different drive? -- Joyce ^..^ (To email me, remove the X's from my user name.) |
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