Tip: Saving movie trailers that have the Save option disabled

Recently, after viewing the trailer for Vanilla Sky, we found that the QuickTime Pro option to Save the movie to disk had been disabled. We have seen this before (the movie developer can set the movie to disable this option). And we have previously posted how to work-around this block in Mac OS 9 (see one, two, and three for examples). However, we don't recall ever posting a similar work-around for Mac OS X. So here it is:

1. Enable the "Save movies in disk cache" option in the Plug-in pane of the QuickTime System Preference (we are not sure this is absolutely necessary, but it can't hurt).
2. Using Internet Explorer, run the trailer.
3. Enable TinkerTool's "Show hidden and system files" option. (If needed, also Force Quit the Finder to get the files to actually show up).
4. Select "Go to Folder" from the Finder's Go menu and enter "/tmp/501".
5. There should be a file in this folder with a name that starts with "QuickTimePlugIn..." Drag the file to the Desktop.
6. You can now turn off TinkerTool's "Show hidden..." option.
7. Use a utility such as Get Info to change the Type and Creator of the file to MooV and TVOD.
8. Use Show Info for the file to select QuickTime Player as the "open with application" selection (this should also change its icon).
9. Finally, you can rename the file if you wish. In any case, the file should now open in QuickTime Player.

Update: A reader writes: '501' is usually the detault user id (uid) in UNIX. Yours may be different. To find your user ID, type 'id' in the terminal.