OT How to save an entire topic and thread?

Stonefield wrote on 8/12/2004, 7:14 PM

Hey all...

There are many questions and threads on this forum that I find quite fascinating, educational, controversial and entertaining.

Any idea how I could save/download an entire thread to save for my own archives ? Other than just cut and pasting the whole shebang.

Stan

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Chienworks wrote on 8/12/2004, 9:15 PM

I'm not sure about MSIE, but in Netscape there's a "Save Page As" function. You have a few choices. You can save only the text, save it in HTML format, or save it in HTML format with all the images. With the third option the saved pages will look nearly identical to the way they appeared on the website. Using this function you could save every thread you want in a directory on your hard drive. When you want to view them again you can point your browser to file://C:/savedthreads/ ... or whatever you named the folder. Browse and read at will.

rs170a wrote on 8/13/2004, 3:52 AM

I'm not sure about MSIE, but in Netscape there's a "Save Page As" function.
MSIE has the same option under "File-Save As...". I've used this several times to save things such as multi-page tutorials that I know will be gone from a site in a week or so. Very handy being able to reference them in 6 months time :-)

Mike

baysidebas wrote on 8/13/2004, 7:50 AM

Mozilla also has the save page as... option, with text, html and "complete" options.
The "complete" option also creates a same-name folder with all the image links present in the html page, so the html page renders as it did on the web.

Stonefield wrote on 8/13/2004, 3:31 PM

Yep, that did it.
It was the Save All function that was the key to what I wanted, the threads are on my HD now nice and archived. Thanks guys.