Safari not playing Yahoo! videos

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Safari not playing Yahoo! videos

While using safari to browser the internet, it cannot play any video on Yahoo, I tried deleting the adobe Flash setting and safari catched but doesn't seem to work, I had this issue for a while now, and thats the reason why I used chrome most of the time, but since I upgraded to Yosemite, I like safaris new look, and I'm considering on switching back to safari, but is kind of annoying that I can't watch any video, I browser yahoo constantly, so it's kind of a big issue for me.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 16, 2014 7:28 PM

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Carolyn Samit

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Oct 16, 2014 10:56 PM in response to Rolando Mota

Hi ..

Open System Preferences > Flash Player then select the Advanced tab.

Click: Delete All under Browsing Data and Settings

Now click: Check Now

You will have to quit Safari in order to update Flash.

When it's done, delete the Safari cache.

Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder

Type or copy paste the following

~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.

Quit and relaunch Safari then try a video on Yahoo.

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Answer 2

Nov 7, 2014 10:29 AM in response to Rolando Mota

I tried to follow these steps but got as far as "finder" and then ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db

A pop-up box said I don't have permissions to remove cache.db, yet I am the sole user of the computer which I've had since buying it.

Can anyone help?

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