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May 25, 2010
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[Help] Is there a way to change how temporary flv videos are stored in my PC?

  • May 25, 2010
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Hello, I'd like to know whether you can change the way Flash Player stores temporary .flv movies in the PC. Every time I watch a video it's usually stored on C:\Users\myusername\Appdata\Local\Temp as "fla      .tmp" until I close the browser's window. I don't like that, since I'd rather have temporary files on a secondary HDD to avoid system fragmentation and unnecessary usage of my newly acquired SSD. I've attempted to change the temporary folder but there's simply no option whatsoever to do it (I even checked the online Flash settings manager, with no luck).

Can you please help me? Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    May 26, 2010

    Flash Player will store temporary files in the temp folder as configured in Windows itself or in the browser. Change it there and they mve.

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    370H55V
    Inspiring
    May 27, 2010

    The default temporary directory in Windows is located on the same  hard drive and partition as the operating system

    itself.

    This is not really  optimized and you could speed up your operating system by moving the  temporary folder from the default location to another hard drive.

    The  process is very simple and done in a matter of seconds.

    Press Windows+Pause (Break) and click on the Advanced tab (XP) or Advanced System Properties (Vista/7).

    Click the Environment  Variables button on the bottom and another window opens showing all  variables.

    The important ones for use are the TMP and TEMP user  variables.

    Create a new directory manually on another hard drive,  for instance f:\temp.

    Highlight the first variable, and select Edit from the menu, then change the default location to f:\temp or the name of the folder you want to use.

    Edit the second variable in the same way and click on ok.

    You should restart your computer afterwards.

    Hope that helps....

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