cbx wrote:

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The file is stored in Windows in the following file/directory:

C;\Documents and Settings\Joe User\Local Settings\Temp\fla_B.tmp
where the _ is A,B,C,D,C. depending on how many times you download
the thing. Any attempts to copy are fruitless, any attempts to unlock
the file are fruitless, as the SWF pugin player just shuts down
immediately and everything disappears. Perhaps there is some software
that can copy the file even though it is locked? I have UNLOCKER
installed on my machine and as soon as I tell it to unlock the file,
it disappears as does the SWF player (flvplayer.swf comes up in
Mozilla when you click on the link).

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I use NS7.2 (Mozilla Gecko engine); I don't know the filesystem layout
of Mozilla-branded browsers so anyone with details, please chime in.
In Netscape, you can specify cache locations which can permit working
with file and directory permissions independently of volatile temp.
directories such as you have mentioned above. I have not had any
file locking problems with cache files in Netscape when copying
them from a command prompt (I don't work in a GUI). One caveat which
I mentioned before is to allocate sufficient cache size to permit
storing the full flv file and to clear the directory prior to viewing
the video in order to ensure that the file is stored and persists in
the cache.

If your Windows environment somehow prevents access to the file when
it is in a cache on a local drive, try assigning your cache to a
network share which may permit grabbing it from a different machine
(for me, I use Netware shares for my browser's cache and it is easy
to grab them from a mounted nfs filesystem on a unix box or even to
undelete them with the Netware 'salvage' utility if they should vanish).

Perhaps you can use an ntfs undelete utility to recover the file from
a local drive if the above methods don't work for you.

Regards,

Michael