Help locating hidden folder

In Tiger I used to save videos or music I or my kids came across in Safari that played in Flash. FlashTmp files.
I could use the Go To Folder in the Finder and go to "/private/var/tmp/folders.501/TemporaryItems/" I would go to this folder and then save the FlashTmp files to play in VLC.
In Leopard this doesn't work or is in a new folder where Safari stores invisible items.
Any idea where these may be in Leopard?

Find it the way Eric suggests, then simply drag the folder icon to the Dock. That automatically creates an alias fo the folder in the Dock without messing with the original

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If the folder is "hidden" and you can see it in one computer, then you must have the folder settings in that computer set to "view hidden files".
If the "view hidden files" option is not checked in the Folder Options window (of windows explorer), then you will not be able to see those folders.
Once you change that option in ANY computer, you will be able to see ANY hidden folders.
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Hi I am having a similar issue, It all started when I tried to restore from the Time Machine and it threw a error back stating that there is no disk available. I was wondering how come and went to find out what is happening and was shocked to find out that actually my entire Macintosh HD has a duplicate copy inside the /Volumes folder. I went to the XTERM to investigate and found that the / (root) has a Users folder where all my stuffs like pictures, music, movies, documents reside and the same data or content is duplicated in the /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users folder
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That is has 7 GB within is a large amount of data and is unusual, but put that aside for a moment.
Just to check the system's ownership of it and also to make a comparison, issue these two commands, first one then the other and compare the results.
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The only snag may be deleting the duplicate if it is owned by the system, otherwise known as root. I don't know if Directory X gives you the ability to delete stuff at that level.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201386
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Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Reinstalling from the original Snow Leopard disk probably got you a version of OS X earlier than 10.6.8.
Running Software Update multiple times MIGHT eventually fix the problem.
A Combo Update is supposed to be a complete set of all OS X files that were updated in any release of that version of OS X.
So, the Combo update is a shorter path to get the updates all at once, in one download of OS X 10.6.8 Combo Update v1.1.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
The full combo download is about 1 Gigabyte, so it will take a while.
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http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15675/apple-safari

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2) because you cannot delete the system folder and files in it. This is the difference between the /Library and ~/Library. Anything inside ~/Library CAN be modified
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I respect and appreciate anyone taking the time to assist fellow users in these forums.
Really, because you don't sound it.
There are situations, however, where a known bug is to blame,
Yes, but who knows this is a bug?
The problem with this is that you assume that you have discovered a bug - and perhaps you have - and an awful lot of people who post on here are equally convinced that they have discovered a bug. Yet, about 99% of the time they have discovered no such thing, but really have found either a glitch with their own Mac and application, or have not quite grasped the way the application works.
The vast majority of the posts we respond to here are solved by
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or
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or
3. More rarely, recovering and recreating the library.
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When we do find a bug - and the Quicktime/Photoshop bug in v6 is an excellent example - we were quite clear in explaining that there was a defect involved and offering a workaround as well as suggesting that feedback be offered to Apple to let them know about the issue.
This is a User to User forum, with all the strengths and weaknesses of that system. It works because folks give of their time and experience on a broad range of issues. I've seen incorrect advice on this forum (I've offered some myself) but I cannot recall an example of malicious advice, advice that was designed to trick other Users into
time consuming yet ineffective fixes
It's always been given in good spirit.
If you're not content to work within that system, you'll be much happier elsewhere.
Finally,
you distract users from what should be their primary task of reporting the bug to Apple.
That is not a User's primary task. It may be your primary focus, but it's not for you or I to decide what all the other users "should" be doing.
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