Comments on: Google Chrome: Browser Cache Folder Is Defensive!

By: Osman

Osman — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:19:25 +0000

Great info from ReneGAED on February 14th, 2009 1:02 PM

this worked like a charm

Cheers everyone!

By: shunji

shunji — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:37:12 +0000

I use Windows 7. Windows 7 built-in backup restore tool also can copy \user\you\AppData\Local\temp. Open files are backed up with Volume Shadow Copy. When a video is fully bufferd, I click ‘pause’ to keep the flv file in the folder, then start backup.
You can get fla—-.tmp file from ‘temp folder’ – right click – properties – previous versions

By: Walker

Walker — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:28:58 +0000

Yes, you’re right:

http://www.walkernews.net/2008/09/21/how-to-copy-youtube-video-or-flv-file-from-google-chrome-cache-folder/

By: andrei

andrei — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:09:43 +0000

the CACHE can BE COPIED while the browser still is opened using hobocopy. it uses shadowcopy to do so. i have tested it, and it works quite well. its the same principle used behind making backups and restore points…

By: jay

jay — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:01:16 +0000

ReneGAED’s solution worked great for me! Thanks ReneGAED.

By: ReneGAED

ReneGAED — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:02:59 +0000

Here’s what i did to copy the video i wanted from the chrome cache folder.
I managed to locate my cache folder at:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp
I arranged my files by ‘size’ and the video i wanted was the obvious larger file.
Using the program ‘Unlocker’ i selected ‘copy’ on the bottom-left drop-down menu. This tells the program exactly how you want to handle the file and prevents it from automatically deleting the file after it removes all haggles.
Then select ‘unlock’ and select where you would like to copy the file.
Then be patient as the program slowly copies the file piece-by-piece to your desired location.
Then i renamed the file to the name of the movie and changed its extension to .flv. Now you can play the video with any standard flv player (MpcStar – free).
The only problem i had was that whenever i tried to seek through the movie to get my fav. part the entire video would start from the beginning. I rectified this by using Batch FLV Converter (free and no installation required!) to convert the video from flv to mpg format (again be patient as this takes some time). I recommend playing the video using FLV Player (free) as it seems to handle it the best (IMO).

Hope this helps!

By: Bob Bobson

Bob Bobson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:12:32 +0000

For the record, you could use a tool (such as Unlocker) to unlock the fla*.tmp files and thus copy/move them. The problem is that once the lock is removed, the files are deleted, so you have to move quickly. One options is to create a BAT file to unlock the files with a command line tool, and move them in one fell swoop, before the system gets a chance to erase them.