Some cartoons,banner or animations that are available for online viewing usually can be ripped so that you can play it offline. Saving flash animations from websites is not so easy. Macromedia Flash player context menu has no option to download or save the Flash movie from the web browser.So you need to tricks to save your favorite flash to your computer. For newbies you can using download accelerator like Flashget and tell it to automatically download the shockwave extention (*.swf) or use Internet Explorer Plugin to saving glash file.

Here step by step to download and save flash animation files in internet explorer :

• Click Tools – Internet Options
• In the General Tab, click the Settings button available in the Temporary Internet Files group.
• Click View Files to open your Temporary Internet Files folder. Depending upon your IE settings, the Temp. folder can contain tens of thousands of files.
• Click View – Details. Now click View – Arrange Icons By – Internet Address. Depending upon the webpage, there could one or more Flash files (Shockwave Flash Object) under the Inernet Address.
• Once you find the right flash file, right-click and choose Copy. Then paste the swf file in any other directory. Be sure tokeep the page and IE open to avoid purging of the cache file.

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