The cache of the browser provides temporary storage on the hard drive of information viewed on the Internet, including web pages, sound files, videos, pictures, etc. And it means that if necessary these files can be extracted from a cache.
Instruction
1. Thanks to a cache, loading of websites which you visit more than once happens quicker as images, the sound and other information are loaded not from the Internet, and directly from a cache. Speed of operation of the browser, thus, increases, and traffic is saved. Repeatedly accessing any web web page, the browser checks what its elements were updated from the last visit, and loads only them. Actually a cache - area on the hard drive where temporary files of the Internet are stored. If you listened to composition on the Internet or watched the video, you can find them in a cache and save for the subsequent listening or viewing. It happens it is especially useful when normal saving a track or roller is unavailable on the website.
2. The folder of a cache is usually stored in the folder of the browser on a system disk, and the directory looks approximately so: C:\Documents and Settings\Имя_пользователя\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\3858427p.default\Cache. Mozilla Firefox in this case - the name of the browser, it can be also Opera, Internet Explorer, etc.
3. Files are stored in the folder of a cache with names from letters and digits and without expansions (.htm, .avi, .mp3), among them can be difficult to find the file necessary to you. To orient, look for the file by date of saving and the size. That this information was displayed, in Windows OS set type of display of the Table icons. Video files have the largest size and can reach several gigabytes, then there are sound files and images (several megabyte is normal), then text. If it seems to you that you found the necessary file, rename it and set the corresponding expansion (for example, .mp3 - for music). Try to reproduce after that it in the player. Now you can copy the found file to any place on the winchester and contact it as required. Stream video often has the .flv extension (but for its playback special codecs are necessary).
4. There are also utilities for reading folders of a cache, special for specific browsers or universal. An example of such universal program - VideoCacheView. Start the program, it will begin to scan folders of a cache of your browser and will issue you the list of the found files. Information on type and file size, date of the last access to it is available. Having clicked a line with the file the right mouse button, you will be able to select desirable action in the menu: view the file, save it or open a link with which it was loaded in the browser.