Alas, since mid-August 2009 Apple added an extra measure to ensure that only Quicktime can save those movies. This is where another Firefox Extension comes in handy, called User Agent Switcher. Only thing left to do is add a custom user agent value of “QuickTime/7.6.2 (qtver=7.6.2;os=Windows NT 5.1Service Pack 3)”, for example and you’re back in business. Just make sure you don’t pass the URL along to an external download manager, since it will use its own user agent.
Another option is to input the custom user agent to a download manager directly, FlashGet does have that capability. Big props go to the guys in the Apple Trailer Download forum, namely rbot and hach22 without which I wouldn’t have anyone to blatantly steal their enlightened knowledge from.
]]>For this and all related issues regarding in use system protected files, folders etc. comes a wonderful little utility which admittedly doesn’t come handy on a daily basis, but it does get its money’s worth (especially since it’s free), called Unlocker by Cedrick Collomb. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Worthy of note is that there are actually plenty of similar utilities out there (who would have guessed ;-)), and of course Microsoft has a poor man’s command line utility called inuse that does a similar job.
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