... when streambox and other conventional methods fail.
I used this to get the nice starwars trailers when streambox couldn't suck the url out of the 'referrer movie' (the 60 kb .mov that simply links to the real clip).

Before anyone tells me "hey you could just try this!" .. I tried:
==searching using start ---> find (all files near the correct size)
as well as (all files created or modified in the past day).
==I also manually browsed through my temporary internet files and through my temp folder. No 30 meg .mov clips or anything else approaching 30 megs.
==I also tried various tricks with IE, viewing the page's source, watching the status bar to get a correct, 'streamboxable' link, etc.
I swear the movie is deleted immediately after DL and simply stored in RAM.

Anyway, I tried digging up an old thread but from the way the board appears to work, I doubt anyone would have seen it. So here's a new post. Sorry if it's old news -
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I recently had a lot of trouble getting a QT5 movie from starwars.com, even using streambox. I thought Apple had finally outsmarted everyone.
Using start --> find files or folders would not find the clip even though it's clearly sitting on the computer somewhere (I used tons of search parameters to be sure).

Anyway, a stupid, flukey trick enabled me to save it even though: file --> save didn't work.

I used streambox to get the 'referrer movie', a 70 kb file with a .mov extension. I opened that movie and waited for it to finish downloading.
To save this movie:
Go to movie --> get movie properties.
Click the name of the movie and choose edit.
Give it a new name.
Now attempt to close the movie. Quicktime will say "Do you want to save the changes" etc.
In the save dialogue you're presented with, one of the options you're presented with is "self-contained". Choose that and click Ok, and that's it.

QUICK EDIT: it's important you leave the previous dialogue box open, the movie properties one. Otherwise when you try to click save, it just refuses to accept the click, forcing you to do "don't save" or "Cancel".

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a question for anyone else: I saw the true link for the movie at the bottom of IE's status bar, which was something like starwars.apple.com/media/ep2/attack_clones/gate/movie.mov
.. the gate part was different from the URL provided by the page's source.
Trying that url in streambox got an error, and looking at the detailed view I could see that it listed the 'Referrer' as a tiny html file I happen to have on my desktop. I wasn't using this html file for anything, and there was no reason to list it as the referrer.. except that it was in the same directory as the 70 kb referrer movie I mentioned earlier.
So does that mean streambox fails because starwars.apple.com is checking the url from which you're linking to the .mov file? And that url must be something specific for the download to take place? If so, is there a way to fake this in streambox, or by creating a dummy html file on my desktop, or something? I'm worrying about all this in case apple smartens up about the above method.