Author Topic: Collecting specific files from Firefox Cache  (Read 771 times)

I have a large amount of files spread across my Firefox cache I wish to centralize to a single folder. I have an add-on called CacheViewer Continued, which allowed me to find all the files by the URLs they came from. However, this add-on is underpowered: The only option given is to delete, and you must manually select each file. The files themselves aren't very well identified. I could run a search within a certain timeframe starting with a certain type of data, but I'm not sure how efficient that would be across an entire cache. Would anyone know of a way I could search out the files similarly to CacheViewer, but then collect all the files and move them?

Edit: This add-on apparently no longer works in newer versions of Firefox, but promised the required functionality: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/cacheviewer-fx4/?src=search

To clarify, what I need is a way of finding the cached files by their source URLs, selecting them all at once, and moving them to a central location. CacheViewer can point out the files, but only offers deletion, and can only select each file manually instead of in bulk.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2013, 05:59:02 PM by MegaScientifical »

Would anyone have any advice on this?

Refining the requirement, I simply need a way of selecting all files from URLs matching certain text. The cache files not have this data, so I'm at a lose.

Looks like you should of "cached" on this before hand

But I had no idea you could organize cache.

Why would you need to? I'm no expert

I hope you find what you need and get your payday OP.

It's weird how I can get a list of all the files, but the method I use won't let me actually bulk select them and move. It shows me the file locations, randomly all over, over 700+ files. Not something you want to go file-by-file, especially when Firefox is clearing them back out relatively quickly from what I've seen. I just need the ability to find them all by their origin url and pull them out to be processed.

Edit: As an alternative, the files did have a consistency in format. I compromised with this: http://tools.tortoisesvn.net/grepWin.html I used RegEx to match up the format. I still need other things though, like conversion.
« Last Edit: April 08, 2013, 02:03:25 AM by MegaScientifical »

In the end, I needed one program to identify the files, another to format the files, and another (apparently rare) program to convert them. I lost the order, but I believe by the time it is cached the order is lost to history. Most of it is numbered, anyway.