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[ArekBulski]

I was just thinking about my work at CodeCall. All the threads, posts and tutorials I made. They are worth a lot to me. But someday they may cease to exist, servers may get struck by a lightning, or my internet connection is down. What then?

I immidiately thought about saving web pages. Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome of course offer that. But for one, they often save it like a crap. Once I saved some offers from Allegro, similar to eBay, and everything was corrupted.

Also they save pages into tens of files, so saving all my threads would take so many files, oh not really a great idea. IE supports saving to a single MHTML file but it also does not work with every page. Not to mention I won't open it on a linux system.

So what other possibility is there left? Any software that saves webpages with success?

Edit: Here is a screenshot of a thread saved in Chrome. Amazing stuff.

http://forum.codecal...=1&d=1251661783

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Edited by ArekBulski, 30 August 2009 - 11:50 AM.

[ArekBulski]

Well, I think saving HTML won't do much. I would like to reain the visual look and graphics. Saving screenshots, on the other hand, seems to be the only solution that I did not put down yet. Problem is, I am not comfortable with the lack of scrolling that it brings. Screens' size would be tolerable, though.

Software designed to do that would be great. Do you know any specific? Browser offline mode, hmm, I never tried that one. But I restore my system now and then and Chrome won't be able to work with that, I think.

Wayback Machine is nice, wow. But it only has copies since 2008, as far as I can see. Besides, my whole need is to be able to view those when I am offline.

Oh that is very nice to hear! I am storing all the solutions and screenshots that I post in my documents folder. So if my computer fails then I have a real-time backup in the U.S. :) I mean, if someone breaks into my house to steal the hard disk, lol. Because then I still have a copy in California-based Syncplicity. Oh wait, but then again if U.S. blew up... :lol:

[chili5]

Can't you go to File and click Save page as. :)

Jordan said:

There are backups of CC all over in many different locations. :) If the U.S. blew up we would still have the last 5 days worth of backups.

If the U.S. blew up you wouldn't be able to do anything with the backups. :)

[ArekBulski]

chili5 said:

Can't you go to File and click Save page as. :)



If the U.S. blew up you wouldn't be able to do anything with the backups. :)

Saving in Chrome, Firefox and IE produces just crap. I want the pages in their own look, not just some minced html code. Needz higher quality. :P

Hah, sure. That is exactly what I wanted to say. Who would recover CodeCall if Jordan got turned into ashes? :crying:

[chili5]

How about this: How to Save Web Pages and Blogs for Offline Reading?

Maybe, we need a backup Jordan in some very little known country, who can restore CodeCall? :)

[Vswe]

What about having a backup on the moon? :D

[amrosama]

i use opera alot and it saves pages really well
it downloads all images in the page and puts all the content in a single file
ive tried FF and it saves like crap, it saves pages assuming you will be connected to the internet when you open it
i got saved blogs and tutorials by members on my pc

[debtboy]

In the future, try keep your content separate from formatting.

What I'm saying is... use XML
(that will give you the flexibility and consistency your looking for).

Then you can store all your data in crystals
or better yet... in your own DNA to be passed
down generation after generation!!

:D

[bbqroast]

Firefox saves with a folder containg all the content (images, etc). Really you should just open up edit post ad copy all the text to note pad. Then if the server gets struck by lightning and their is no back up (unlikely) you can just re upload them as most forums have similar code.