OK, I have been threatening to write this so I could find it again
when someone asks. Let's see if this works
You have watched a show at Photodex sharing that someone so
thoughtfully provided a link to and you want to keep a copy on
your local hard drive for later viewing - here is the process.
The following information is un-documented as near as I can tell, so
Photodex may decide to change it at any time (hopefully not). I am
assuming you are using
Windows XP - for
Vista, see the notes at the
bottom -- any other OS flavors, the path may not be the same.
Downloading the show:When you click on a "shared show", Presenter begins to download the
show using a temporary name to the following directory (change "mikey"
to your account name).
C:\Documents and Settings\Mikey\Local Settings\Temp[edit] - thanks to briancbb for the following - I had forgotten
)
Two additional things. The
Local Settings folder is a hidden folder.
If you can't see it go to
Tools>Folder Options>View>Show Hidden Files,
and make sure it is selected (dot in a circle). Also under the same options
make sure that
'Hide extensions to known file types' is
unselected,
otherwise you will not see the file extension (the.tmp and .px)
If you look in that directory and sort by size, most often the shared
shows will end up near the bottom. You do NOT need to actually
"Play" the show to get it downloaded, but it is important to understand
that when you exit Presenter, the temp copy of the show gets deleted.
The trick here is to let Presenter download the entire show. The show
will have a name like
psg???.tmp where the "???" will be 2 or 3
letters or numbers and will end up roughly the same size as what is
shown on the page where you view the show near the bottom. For
example, if you look at this show of mine (for a quick giggle ... )
http://www.photodex.com/sharing/viewsho ... 4319&alb=0you will notice under the display window it shows that it is "5.40 megs".
This will give you an idea how big the show is before you download it -
you may want to skip it on a dial up line if it is 200 megs
There are several ways to tell if a show has finished downloading - use
which ever one(s) work for you:
- if you can see your router (for those on broadband), the activity light
for your pc will suddenly drop way down when it is done - use one of
the following to confirm it is done:
- Looking at the size make sure it is close (they don't show exactly the
same due to the megabyte "value" -- 1,000,000 vs "real" megs of
2**20 = 1,048,576 (yeah, I know - don't go there !). If you do a
"View -> Refresh" the size should stay the same indicating the download
is done.
- If you have brought up the folder contents for the above temp directory
BEFORE the download was complete, the file will have a size smaller than
what is listed for that show. Don't touch anything, just leave that window
open with the file being downloaded showing. When the download is
complete and windows closes the file, the displayed size will suddenly jump
to the final value (close to that listed for the file). The download is complete.
Saving the file after downloading:Now that the file is done downloading,
DO NOT EXIT PRESENTERRight click the file that was downloaded to the temp directory specified and
select "Copy" (you must use Copy, you can't move the file since Presenter
still has it's grubby little fingers on it). Copy the file, go to the directory
where you want to save the file and select "Paste". You now have a copy
of the file, but it still has the "psg???.tmp" name. At this point, you can
rename the file to whatever name makes sense to you (I usually use
an abbreviated form of the title and the users name). Set the file type to
.px (when you rename it, you can do all that in one step - just type the
desired_name.px when you rename it). You can now exit Presenter.
Presto !! You now have your own copy of a show from the
Photodex sharing site.
NOTES:--- You do NOT need to actually "watch" the show, you only need to let
Presenter download a copy of the show to your Temp Directory. Also
note that you must use the copy/paste routine to some other directory,
you can't just rename the temp show in the temp directory, again because
Presenter "owns" that file and still has control of it.
--- I would suggest putting shortcuts on your desktop to the temp download
directory as well as where ever you normally store your shows. This makes
it easy to go there next time instead of trying to remember where they are
VISTA update (thanks to Al Cain)These instructions are for VISTA USERS ONLY. Downloading the show:
When you click on a "shared show", Presenter begins to download the
show using a temporary name to the following directory (change "mikey"
to your account name).
C:\Users\Mikey\AppData\Local\Temp
To be able to view this folder, you have to do two things...
1) Turn OFF UAC (User Account Controls) Then Re-Boot
2) In Folder options, go to Tools>Folder Options>View>Show Hidden Files,
and make sure it is selected (dot in a circle). Also under the same options
make sure that 'Hide extensions to known file types' is unselected,
otherwise you will not see the file extension (the.tmp and .px)
End of VIST Specific infoHope that helps people
Let me know if I forgot anything or if any parts of it are unclear (I will update
this post so it is as current as possible)!!
mikey
Last edited by
gpsmikey on Wed Aug 01, 2007 4:37 pm, edited 3 times in total.