I opened a PDF the other day in Chrome from a URL. I can view the entire PDF in chrome, but can't save it, as when I do, I get a server error–as the URL the PDF was from is no longer working.
It appears that the 'save file' feature in Google's PDF viewer attempts to re-download the file from the source rather just grabbing the file that's already in my cache.
If I go to view chrome's cache via chrome://cache/ I can see the URL to the PDF, but not the file itself.
Where does this file exist on my system at the moment?
Best Answer
OS X stores user caches in
~/Library/Caches
. The Library folder is hidden, but you can enter it by going to the Finder, click Go, keep ⌥ pressed and click Library.You said in the comments that the cache is not easy searchable.
You can also try searching from the command line:
If there is a large binary blob cache file, you can try using a Hex Editor (I like Hex Fiend for OS X). Search for Hex
25 50 44 46
(%PDF
), start copying from there and store it in a new file. Good luck!