'Saving' FAOL items?

FAOL Community Sound Off
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This is neither complaint nor praise. It’s a question.
Lately I’ve not been able to ‘save’ articles on FAOL to my hard drive. The ‘save’ goes through it’s motions for awhile then says it’s unable to save it. Is That a function of the new BBoard? I’m still able to “save” from other sources.
My hard drive isn’t all that big but it still has plenty of room. I’d like to be ablel to ‘save’ some FOTW and some of those delicious recipes, such as LF’s recent Chicken Gumbo Soup, which has received high praise recently.
All is not lost. I’ve printed some of the items, including the soup which will be prepared soon, but would like to be able to commit such things to the hard drive.
Thanks a bunch for any response.

Bill

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Bill are you trying to save a web page AS a web page? On my mac I have an option which works well and you might have it, too. When I’m on a page I want to save I choose Print and in that dialogue box I can choose save as PDF instead of printing to paper. Works on just about every kind of file I’ve tried, including webpages.

Hope this helps.

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Since you mentioned the receipe…this may help…

I sent that receipe [website to my wife’s computer via e-mail]…right click on the web page…click properties…high lite the address…and send it anywhere

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Using Ducksterman’s method you could just send it to your own email. You then wouldn’t need a wife.

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“Using Ducksterman’s method you could just send it to your own email. You then wouldn’t need a wife.”

GBF, Even if it works, Now that is NOT a good idea :slight_smile:

Mark

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"“Using Ducksterman’s method you could just send it to your own email. You then wouldn’t need a wife.” "

but GBF then I’d go hungry :roll:

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I’m with Marco! Even though my wife doesn’t have a computer, I’ll NOT be getting rid of her!

Thanks for the many responses.

Sorry Diane, my PC doesn’t have the capabilities of your Mac.

The idea of mailing the page to myself DOES work. Thanks a bunch for that idea. It’s much slower than before since it’s a roundabout method, but it works.

I’m still curious about why I can no longer simple hit ‘file’ in the toolbar and successfully tell it to ‘save as’.
Oh well…
Many thanks.

Bill

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littlebrook? What browser are you using? We haven’t made any changes on this end that might affect you being able to save.

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Hi Ladyfisher,
I’m using MS Internet Explorer 6, the program that came with the machine a little over four years ago. If you haven’t changed anything I’ve apparently done something myself.
Being a believer in the KISS principle I don’t use a bunch of add-on programs. I have an AV program, Spybot, CCleaner, etc, but the Yahoo toolbar showed up a while back. I deleted it but that may have been the source of trouble. Perhaps it caused a problem. Guess I’ll have to go through a bunch of setting boxes in the hope of seeing something awry.
Thanks very much for your response. What a board!!

Bill

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Littlebrook

I don’t know if I have ever tried to save any of the fotw’s before but I can’t now either.

Knucks

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Maybe this will help…

Let’s say you want to save FOTW…
Right click on the page
Click on properties
copy the address that comes up
paste it into your address bar
Now you have a new FOTW page with the correct address
Click on File
Click on Save as…then pick where you want to send it… :idea:

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Ducksterman

That worked okay.
Thanks
Knucks

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Now I’m getting bummed! :evil:

Knucks, I’m glad to hear of your succes, but I’m still getting the dreaded “The web page could not be saved.”

Guess I’ll go back to the roundabout method until I thoroughly investigate alll those funny little boxes where decisions/selections are made.

Thanks very much to all.

Bill

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There aren’t any smiles in being bummed, so I quit that. But I’m still thoroughly confused, and there’s apparently not much point in going through all those selection/decision dialog boxes.
Today I tried to save a fly dressing from another board and it flew right onto my hard drive with no problem. Came back here and tried to save the current FOTW and got the dreaded “Unable to save…” message.
Is there an exorcist in the group?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Even if I can’t save it, I’m very thankful for this site.

Bill

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Bill If you want to save something e-mail the page to me and I’ll mail it back to you. If I’m busy it may take a day or so but you’ll get it.

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Be grateful, you have the only ‘Unable to save’ message in the world coming up!!! Nifty!

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Thanks rainbowchaser, but I can email it to myself. The gripe there is that it’s a much longer process - email it, get it back,check it then save it - than just sending it directly to the C drive.
Thanks much anyway.

And a very Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Bill