Lisa
----Original Message Follows---- From: "Anna B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] archiving webpages for documentation Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:56:20 -0500
Listers,
I have over several year frequently download webpages as HTML docs for documentation, as though I was making a copy from the library, for example. Since most of the time, I do not want all of the nested links, rather just the page I am looking at, I save as "Web page, HTML only" which kept me from getting all the nested pages, add gifs, etc, additional folder. I thought that by doing this I was preventing the dreaded problem of losing the information should the web author change their server, move their link, etc. Occassional I would also save as a .MHT archive as that would also give me pictures of just the first page if pictures were something on the sight that were of interest to me. It had not so far presented me with any problems.
I recently upgrade to XP, also to office 2000 if this makes any difference. But using a suggestion of the board I decided it a good idea to use document numbers on those articles I had used in my Bibliography. Uh oh. When I change the name of either of the above, the sight, although not a shortcut, will not come up.
When this happened I took a looking at the sourcecode, to find see that the web url is embedded into the source. That especially the MHT is a useless archive as it has NO TEXT, just a lead back to the url address.
Am I just up the creek here or can some one offer me some direction. I now feel like I am presented with the awesome job of going through my entire archive of downloaded HTML's research to see if the links are still. That the whole purpose of saving them was defeated. Something must be amiss in my line why even offer the save as HTML only mechanism I used if changing the link, would lose the data, a shortcut would serve the same purpose.
I also used to be able to open these "Web Page ONLY HTML's in Win 98 and Highlight those lines that were of particular interest to me within the HTML code; now the pages do not open in Windows 2000.
I feel like I fell in an HTML code. I realize this might seem somewhat off Legacy Topic, but this information if very important to my Genealogy documentation and therefore to my Legacy documentation. Perhaps someone else could direct me to a website with some assistance in this matter. Thanks in advance for any help and the continued suggestions to numerous to be mentioned which are of great help.
Anna B. Board Lurker...Occassional Contributor
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