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Saving YouTube Videos From Temp File To Your Hard Drive

February 25th, 2010 | 17 Comments | Posted in Windows by bharath

You must be knowing that whenever you open a webpage, the data in the page would be first stored in your computer’s
windows internet cache temporary folder and later retrieved from there.This is true in case of YouTube also.

So whenever you open a YouTube video and let it to stream fully, it will be saved in your Windows temp folders as
“flaXXX.tmp” file.So now our hack will be using this concept to save YouTube (or any flash content based streaming site for
that matter) directly on your hard drive without needing to install any extensions in your browser.

The Process:

1 Step 1: Go to windows temp folder from the following path:

for Windows vista/ Windows 7:

C:\>Users\>User Name\>AppData\>Local\>Temp\

2 Step 2: As said earlier, the temporary flash files would generally be of the format flaXXX.tmp.In my case the required
filename is flaDEBD.tmp.This file contains the flash content from YouTube video that you have just allowed to stream fully.

3 Step 3: This is the temp file that we are looking for.If we can copy it to some other location on your PC and rename it as
*.flv file, our headache is over, but unfortunately Windows doesn’t allow you to copy a temporary file that is already in use
by another application like browser for instance.

The following animated image would reflect the same situation.

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4 Step 4: Luckily we have a free open source program called HoboCopy that makes this copying process easier for
us.Download the zip file and place HoboCopy.exe in your C:\ drive (or in any directory from where you can actually run this
exe file through command prompt).

5 Step 5: Now open Administrator command prompt (Windows XP users can make type cmd in the run prompt but
Windows Vista and Windows 7 users have to run cmd.exe using “Run as administrator” from the menu, you can actually
figure out the difference between normal command prompt and Administrator command prompt, the window name starts
with the word “Administrator” as you can see from the below screen shots.

6 Step 6: Go to C:\ and type the following commands (assuming that you have placed HoboCopy.exe in your “C” drive).
Pass the target file name that you want to copy like flaXXX.tmp at the end of the command.

C:\>hobocopy C:>Users>User Name>AppData>Local>Temp\ G:>FLV-Video> flaXXX.tmp

Replace “User Name” with your Windows administrator user name and “flaXXX.tmp” with your actual target file. In my
case the User Name is “Bharath” and the target filename is flaDEBD.tmp

C:\>hobocopy C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Temp\ G:\FLV-Video\ flaDEBD.tmp

Wait till the file gets copied to your target destination.

7Step 7: Now that your required temporary file copied to another folder, you can change it’s extension from “.tmp” to “.flv”
so that it can be opened by any player that supports FLV format files.

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Download HoboCopy [Sourceforge.net]

Note:
1.The browser I have used here is Google Chrome, you can also refer to our guide on how to download YouTube videos in
Google Chrome using greasemonkey scripts.Also make sure that you don’t use Internet explorer 6 for watching YouTube
videos.

2.The above whole process has been done in my system which is running Windows 7.The procedure still remains the same
for Windows Vista and Windows XP even though there may be changes in the location of Windows Temporary files.

3.HoboCopy actually intended for backing up entire folder(s).But here we are limiting it to just one file by passing the file
name argument at the end of the syntax (flaDEBD.tmp in the above pics).So if you do not pass the file name at the end of
the syntax, the entire temp folder gets backed up.

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17 Responses to “Saving YouTube Videos From Temp File To Your Hard Drive”

1. Poppy Scott Says:

April 30th, 2010 at 12:09 am

i use Youtube to watch Taylor Swift videos. I always watch movie clips on Youtube. What an awesome site. *-

2. mehdi Says:
June 4th, 2010 at 3:45 pm

couldn’t find any fla???.tmp files.

I have searched all location. Even searched all files modified ‘today’
(browser is open with youtube video opened and ready to be replayed)
I ‘m using Win 7 Ultimate, 64 bit
I used to get video files with this method, till I was using Vista64

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3. bharath Says:
June 4th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

@Mehdi, let the video to buffer fully, then checkout the temp folder without closing the Youtube window.

4. bine Says:
June 17th, 2010 at 11:18 am

i ran it on windows xp and the pc says hobocopy is not a valid win32 application
is there any other way to copy the flaXXX.tmp file?

5. bine Says:
June 17th, 2010 at 11:32 am

got the tmp file but when i open it, it says access violation at address 21201a9fflvlib.dll read of adress 00000000

6. vishwanath Says:
November 15th, 2010 at 1:12 pm

Flawless man…awesome!!..thnx a ton! works like a charm and no freakin other additional sw required..really
cool…cant thank u enough..found this procedure at the right time

7. Abbey Says:
January 22nd, 2011 at 2:37 pm

Man You ROCK!! It worked out like a Western marriages…Thanx!!

8. satinder Says:
March 17th, 2011 at 3:01 pm

I found a user in c but when i click on the user in the user folder i did not saw any user name please solve my solution

9. Ram Says:
March 25th, 2011 at 2:00 am

Excellent Bharath! I was able to download the files I wanted to, which didn’t work using YouTube Downloader
application.

10. Pentos Says:

December 25th, 2011 at 4:41 pm

thank’s,… i’m succesfull copy all temporary internet files on win7

11. Jedyslash Says:

March 26th, 2012 at 1:05 pm

EVERYONE!!!!!DON’T MISS YOUR TIME DOING THIS….JUST USE “UNLOCKER” TO COPY THE .tmp
FILE!!!! 100% WORKING!!!!!

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12. JD Says:
May 16th, 2012 at 5:48 am

thanks a lot!
i watch anime streams from animedreaming and lovemyanime.
i use mozilla and sometimes the flv file wont be copied by flashgot.
just dont close the window where the flv was opened and finished its caching or else you will never find the tmp file.

13. Akpaeti Says:

August 10th, 2012 at 10:37 am

men you are great. i appreciate your high level of ICT. Where are you from and i have a whole lot of problems for you
to solve. thanks. expecting response from you using my e-mail:akpaetibert@yahoo.com

14. Denver Says:

September 7th, 2012 at 2:16 am

Copy .tmp files/youtube videos without using any software on Window 7 using chrome

http://denverdsouza.blogspot.in/2012/09/how-to-copy-tmp-filesyoutube-videos.html

15. Alaa Mahran Says:

January 23rd, 2013 at 11:44 am

Thank you very much, hobocopy is an incredible tool

16. Abdul Razzak Says:

November 8th, 2013 at 9:43 pm

Hi everybody,
I want to copy the online audio received by chrome or Mozilla Firefox to be downloaded to my hard disk. Can
anybody give me some clue? Thank you for the InterNet team.

17. Abdul Razzak Says:

November 8th, 2013 at 10:03 pm

Hi everybody,
I want to copy the online audio received by chrome or Mozilla Firefox to be downloaded to my hard disk. Can
anybody give me some clue? Thank you for the InterNet team.

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