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This guide serves as a reference for whoever interested in manual way of retrieving web contents (e.g. flash video from YouTube / FLURL, mp3, midi, jpg, etc) from web browser cache folder.

For demonstration, play this video until the show end. You must wait for it to finish before proceed to next step.



Suppose the IE cache folder is big enough for the video clip (reserved disk space), you’ll likely have a cached copy of the video clip soon after the playback completed in Internet Explorer.

How to check the size of reserved disk space for Internet Explorer cache folder?

1. Click on the Tools button followed by the Internet Options menu
    
2. Click on the Settings button of Browser History section. Inside the Temporarily Internet Files sections, take a look on the Disk Space To Use setting. (Recommends at least 50MB to 250MB reserved for IE cache folder. If you visit a lot of video hosting sites, the cache folder size should be configured with bigger reserved disk space.)

How to locate or save Youtube video clip in IE7 for Windows XP?

1. Click on the Tools button followed by the Internet Options menu
    
2. Click on the Settings button of Browser History section.
    
3. Click on the View Files button to open up Windows Explorer.
    
4. The cached web contents is usually kept here. Sort the files here by File Size, the bigger file size is likely the FLV Flash video, mp3, midi, etc. If you don’t find the cached file here, proceed to the Content.IE5 folder (next step)
    
5. Press ALT+D to highlight the Windows Explorer Address bar, append \Content.IE5 at the end of XP-IE7 cache folder path, e.g.

   C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5

   Some of the cached files are likely kept inside the Content.IE5 hidden folder!

By default, Youtube doesn’t cache the streaming video with a file extension. The file name convention of a Youtube video in browser cache folder (regardless Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, etc) is get_video[n], where n is numeric.

^{Locate the YouTube video file, copy it to some other place, and rename it with a meaningful name that ended with .flv file extension.}

Hence, you should locate the get_video[n] files and save them to your backup folder, and rename them with a FLV file extension, e.g. get_video[1].flv. (The FLV Flash video can be playback with any compatible flash player, e.g. Gabest Media Player Classic, Martijn FLV Player, Storm Codec, etc!

^{Playback YouTube FLV flash video in Media Player Classic.}


How to retrieve YouTube Video from a protected mode IE7 in Windows Vista?

When the IE 7 is running in protected mode (only applicable to Windows Vista), most of the web contents are kept inside the “low privilege” version of CONTENT.IE5 folder insides the conventional cache folder.

1. Click on the Tools button followed by the Internet Options menu
    
2. Click on the Settings button of Browser History section.
    
3. Click on the View Files button to open up Windows Explorer. (Except the ASCII cookies files, I believe you won’t see other file types. But, the folder size can be few ten megabytes. So, where are the files stored and why you can’t see them?)
    
4. Now, press ALT+D or click the blank area of Windows Address Bar, append \low\content.ie5 at the end of IE7 cache folder path and press ENTER - this is where the protected mode IE7 caches the web contents, including YouTube Video, jpg picture files, mp3, midi, etc!

Topic - Howto, Windows Vista   Search - Cache, Flash, IE7, UAC, Video, Youtube

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