Macintosh Temporary Files

Jeffboy777 · Post by **Jeffboy777** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:22 pm

I want to open some of them...like on some websites, you can listen to a song by a band or something, but instead of opening just the file, it has a page with the file inside it, which doesn't let you download the file. However, if the cache has every file that you've come across in it, then I should be able to save that individual file.

7on · Post by **7on** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:23 pm

You can drag items out of the History window while in IE and view them separately (drag them to the desktop for example), or even delete the urls individually by selecting one and deleting it (or multiple ones with shift+click). These separate files are bundled together inside the .waf files.

Jeffboy777 · Post by **Jeffboy777** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:27 pm

OK, let me give an example...on a Yahoo Launchcast radio program thing, you listen to a song file with windows media player, but the way the player works, you can't download the song file itself...but if the file is in the cache, I could save it and not have to wait for it to appear randomly from the song list again to hear it.

7on · Post by **7on** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:26 pm

Hmmmm, in OS9 when a player does come up go to File>Save as... and then you should be able to save anywhere. The cache file is in one file.

Jeffboy777 · Post by **Jeffboy777** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:29 pm

Holy crap, how come I've never seen/tried that!? Thanks a million!

Now that this is taken care of, lock away, forum rulers!

Infin8Cyn · Post by **Infin8Cyn** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:50 pm

Sheer curiousity, how is that not downloading a song?

Jeffboy777 · Post by **Jeffboy777** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:54 pm

Technically, it is downloading a song, but with less questionable methods, I guess...the files are still available for free, so it's the company/band/etc.'s fault that they're available. The RIAA can't get mad at me for taking something given to me. At least....I don't think they can....

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:06 am

the riaa doesn town all music, but you're just a retard on a mac, and one time an old lady using a mac was supposedly downloading hardcore gangsta rap on kazaa. the ip was latent and the riaa's timestamp was wrong. Actually, because you have a mac, nothing will happen to you, oh pirate of the wannabes.

7on · Post by **7on** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:34 am

[quote="DJ TopCat";p="286464"]Actually, because you have a mac, nothing will happen to you, oh pirate of the wannabes.[/quote]

And this is bad how?

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:31 am

[quote="7on";p="286533"][quote="DJ TopCat";p="286464"]Actually, because you have a mac, nothing will happen to you, oh pirate of the wannabes.[/quote]

And this is bad how?[/quote]

I didn't say it was bad. I'm just saying there was a newstory where they mentioned the falsely accused woman (who I'm not totally sure was falsely accused, some old lady gangsters around).

Killer-Rabbit · Post by **Killer-Rabbit** » Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:49 pm

[quote="Jeffboy777";p="286368"]The RIAA can't get mad at me for taking something given to me. At least....I don't think they can....

[/quote]

Maybe. Maybe not. But you are still downloading songs and you still are supposed to be following your dad's rules. I'm going to laugh when you disapear from the internet in a week or so.

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:34 am

/me proceeds to download songs from http://www.frontalot.com and http://www.mchawking.com

/me laughs at the riaa and their silly rules. /me then notes these artists provide the mp3s themselves, like the good artists would.

Kuronekosama · Post by **Kuronekosama** » Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:59 pm

If this is os8 or 9, then just create a dummy folder in like the system folder called systemprefs or something else that sounds properly authentic. Rename all of the files you download to like #s and change the extension so they won't be identified as music files. Your player shouldn't have any difficulty even if the name and extension is changed, you just have to open the music through the player as opposed to double clicking on the file

I'm not too familiar with osx so can't help a whole lot on that - this process works fine in in just about any operating system, heh, I know when I was younger I hid all kinds of pr0n on the family computer

7on · Post by **7on** » Thu Feb 26, 2004 6:59 am

yeah, OSX works primarily off of resource forks instead of extensions. That plan of action is a no go... however sometimes it a file has no resource fork (copied from a PC) then OSX relies on an extension till resaved. So I guess it would be possible under OSX if you copied pr0n from a PC (dunno bout the internet though...) and renamed the extensions to something. There is also a way to manually delete the resource forks through the terminal, but I haven't used it.

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