Problem downloading videos onto PC from 4s

Question

Hi,
I filmed two long videos (one more than a half hour, one almost an hour and a half) on my 4S and now I can't seem to download them onto my PC. When I try to use the camera wizard the videos don't even show up now, but they're still in my photo album.
Is there another piece of software that would help with this problem? I really need to get the videos and free the space on the phone up.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You can look for a different downloader, I know they exist but I've never bothered to use them. One thing you can do instead is use Safari, go to the Window menu item when something starts to play, and select Activity. You'll see a line where the size keeps increasing as the video loads (it will also have a size in MBs rather than KBs, as the other items listed do). You used to have to hold the option key and double click that line, but you might get it to download with a simple double click these days. It will go to wherever you have Safari set to download things, and will be named "videoplayback.flv"--you'll want to rename it.
Personally, I just take the cached download that YouTube sends automatically and drag it to the desktop and rename it and give it the flv extension, but it's a wee bit difficult to explain how to do that, since the item will have an address sort of like this:
/private/var/folders/Rv/RvRzJO5dHda62tPNz4CIxk+++TI/-Tmp-/TemporaryItems/FlashTm p0
Since the /private folder is invisible, and most of the rest of the path's named items will vary from computer to computer, even user to user, it makes it a bit complex to explain. Try the Activity window method, that should work just fine.
Francine