Monthly Archives: October 2007

• If you’re using Internet Explorer, the cache folder should be located at “C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files“, where yourname is your Windows login name.
If you’re using Firefox, the cache folder should be located at “C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default\Cache“.
• It’s a bit complicated to actually find the video you want in the cache folder, since neither Internet Explorer and Firefox give cached items proper file extensions. The best you can do here is sort the files by size, and look for files of a video-worthy size (several megabytes). Under Firefox, the files named _CACHE_nnn_ are special files, and not videos. A good method of doing this would be to clear your browser’s cache, then go to YouTube, view the video you want (and only that video), then go to the cache folder: the largest file in the cache should be the video. Now copy it out of the cache folder and rename it with a “.flv” extension, and you’ve got it!