How to save a shared show to your hard drive - VISTA USERS

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How to save a shared show to your hard drive - VISTA USERS

Postby alcain » Wed Aug 01, 2007 5:35 am

Mikey, I copied and pasted your instructions below, editing the instructions for VISTA users. I hope you don't mind. ~al

(This tutorial was written by Mikey, and all credit goes to him. I have only updated it for Vista users)

VISTA Proceedure:

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).

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)


If you look in that directory and sort by size, most often the shared
shows will end up near the TOP. 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=0
you 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 PRESENTER
Right 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.

NOTE:
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.

Hope that helps people
Let me know if I forgot anything or if any parts of it are unclear !!

mikey / (Edited for Vista users by al)
Using Producer V4, PS CS5, and the Nikon D80, D90 & D7000 for all of my professional work.
BFA with a major in Communication Design, Texas State University, 1978
And now abideth faith, hope and love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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Postby gpsmikey » Wed Aug 01, 2007 7:43 pm

Thanks for figuring the Vista part out Al -- I have edited my original post
to include your descriptions for Vista.

mikey
You can't have too many gadgets or too much disk space !!
mikey (PSP6, Photoshop CS6, Vegas Pro 14, Acid 7, BluffTitler, Nikon D300s, D810)
Lots of PIC and Arduino microprocessor stuff too !!

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