[RESOLVED] "This Land" with Bush & Kerry

First, let me say that this may not be the place for this post. If so, I apologize and ask the moderator to reposition it.

Now to my "problem" ...

People at work would like to see the "This Land" parody with Bush & Kerry but we only have dial-up at work (& iWindows 98).

I visited http://atomfilms.shockwave.com from my home machine (XP HOME with cable modem) hoping to download it and bring it to work. I discovered that I could only "view" it. I surmised that it must have dowloaded a SWF file on my machine before launching and all I would have to do is find it, burn it to a CD and bring it to work for others to see.

I tried searching all files and folders (including hidden) but could not locate the SWF file.

Does anyone have any suggestions why this file cannot be found? It is not really saved on my drive before launching? Can it be found somewhere else? I have a bit torrent client ... is there a bit torrent file available?

Thanks in advance for your time.

Terry

zeszut--Viewed it, then did a Find for *.swf and found it in one of the alphanumeric subfolders in Temporary Internet Files|Content.IE5. Name is "this_land[1].swf", size 3.75MB.
If you deleted your TIF (cache), you would have deleted it.
Pretty funny, though I thought Bush's lyrics were much better than Kerry's.

Thanks, Jim.

I'll try looking again tonight when I get home.

Someone on another site (Winforums.org) directed me to http://www.roesser.com/media/index.asp where I could just download it.

Thanks.

Well, I see that "Good to Be in DC" is out as a SWF file. Again, I'm having the same problem accessing the file as downloaded on my computer. I can go to the site using Mozilla or IE and view the SWF. But when I do a search for all files containing ".swf", I don't see it.

I'm using XP. In the search function, I'm selecting "Search system folders", "Search hidden files and folders" and "Search subfolders".

When I get the search results, I sort by size (assuming this is a large file) and date (assuming it would be saved with todays date). In both cases, no large or new SWF file appears.

Am I doing this search wrong or am I missing something obvious.

Welshjim says "If you deleted your TIF (cache), you would have deleted it." Is this something that is automatically done and so ereases this file?

Thanks in advance.

SWF opener [freeware] should help you find it in your drive cache and save them elsewhere.

Another source is http://jibjab.com/

Right click and "save target as" these links to save them to your harddrive.

This Land
http://images2.shockwave.com/afasset.../this_land.swf

Dixieland
http://images2.shockwave.com/afasset...odtobeindc.swf

Thanks, 104456. I installed SWF OPENER but it couldn't find the file either. I already have software entitled FLASH MOVIE EXTRACT PILOT (though it doesn't sort the file as OPENER does) but it couldn't file the file either.

Thanks, Nomad559. I saved the file from you link.

I still can't figure out why XP can't find these files.

Terry

zeszut--JibJab are out with another one. "Good to be in D.C."
http://www.jibjab.com/
Hilarious.
I believe it says it is a Macromedia Flash file.
The bad news is that it apparently does not download as a .swf file and I cannot find it searching for files Modified today, either. (I can find plenty of .swf files on my XP PC but nothing to do with this file.)
You can watch it for free, but there also is a box to Download for $2.95.

i did see that they're selling both on a single dvd for $10.

Ok., I don't pay the $10 for a DVD. What I did in both cases was simple: loaded the files which takes a while on a dial-up, played them and then went to the Temporary Internet Files in Explorer, sorted by file type, found the *.swf files and simply copied them to a folder of my choice. Can now play them at any time I want. Of course, shockwave player must be installed. Was pretty simple.

i hadn't planned on paying $10 for them. the problem i have is that i can't find the SWF file on my computer after viewing them on-line (see my earlier post in this thread).

i followed nomad's links and got the files.

great for you if you can SEARCH and find the files. for some reason i cannot.

Just to mention this: I di not mean to suggest that you buy the DVD. I also understood that that you could not find the *.swf with the search utilities. That situation is so that a search utility cannot find the *.swf because it is in the Temporary Internet Files folder which in other words is the IE Cache. Though you may see, using Explorer, individual files in the folder(s) in "IE Cache", in reality these files are in one big file, so a search utility cannot find the *.swf fille or any other for that matter in the Folder(s). The rest is then as I explained above. Hope this explains why the search could not find the *.swf.

zeszut, you may have your IE set to delete that cache everytime it's closed. Have you set your system to show hidden and system files? If they're hidden a search won't find them.

I was using Opera to view the file and found it in the Opera cache. Another possibility is Maxthon (formerly MyIE2) has a "Flash Save" plugin that'll grab the file as it downloads.

Edit: Ooops, I just tried to search for "content.ie5" (that's where it's at) and didn't find what I wanted. So I tried to browse to it directly, that didn't work either. (I'm set for all files to show and it's still not showing)

So I'm here at "C:\Documents and Settings\DVOM\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files". This is where it's at but it doesn't show. So, to the above address I added "\content.ie5" and hit "go".

That did it. I was able to view the contents of "content.ie5". I was able to cut and paste out of it also.

Geeez, M$ is a little overly protective of "content.ie5".

I use Flash Catcher, you can use it for free ten times.

Works great !

Logo is a link... :D


http://www.justdosoft.com/flashCatcher/images/logo.gif

DVOM--Your idea of manually adding "content.ie5" to the Windows address for Temporary Internet Files was an eyeopener.
I posted somewhere some time ago saying that I could not understand the function of the "Content.IE5" files that Search found on my Win XP PC. They were all empty or at most had alphanumeric files that only had a desktop.ini and/or an index.dat file in them--no other files. No one had an answer.
Now I find what I was looking for in
C:\Documents and Settings\DVOM\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\content.ie5 !! There are the old familiar alpha numeric folders chock full of recently downloaded files. As you say, why would MS hide them? (My Search function is set up to find Hidden Files so these are doubly hidden since Local Settings is a hidden folder.)

But now the bad news. I found that the "goodtobeindc[1].swf " file from JibJab, but it will not play when I click on it even though I presumably have Flash and Shockwave installed. (I saw the .swf file just fine yesterday from the internet.) I put all my Security ActiveX settings to Enable (except unsigned), but no luck. I also tried Windows Media Player, but it told me my ActiveX controls would not permit playing!! (I am a little uncomfortable allowing the unsigned ones to run.)
Were you able to get the downloaded .swf file in the Content.IE5 folderto play ?

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zeszut, you may have your IE set to delete that cache everytime it's closed. Have you set your system to show hidden and system files? If they're hidden a search won't find them.

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I do show hidden & system files. How do I check my cache deletion. I don't think it's on delete but I don't know where the settings are.

Welshjim, to get it to play I had to do a "open with" and use IE or Opera.

DVOM--No luck with goodtobeindc.swf. Tried IE and Irfanview (with plug ins). No big deal.
Much more important to learn where the real Content.IE5 folders are.

I see there's athird SWF entry in this series ("Second Term").

I ran it from the internet and, later, found it in the CONTENT.IE5 folder. Thanks for this information.

"Second Term" seems to run okay in IrfanView as well as SWF Opener.