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Old January 25, 2003, 17:57   #1
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Do you ever save threads?
Well?

I do. Got a fair number of them on my hard-drive from here to the SDMB. Right now I'm in the process of saving all 6 pages to last weekends "MS Dividend" thread, started by Asher.

Other threads I have saved:

How should Social Security Work?
Single Issue Voter (me vs. Floyd, turning into Loinburger vs. Floyd in a fight to exhaustion)
Social Security Alternative
Star Wars is not sci-fi
Ten Days that Shook my World
Big SF intellectual screw-ups

and others on the computer at work.
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Old January 25, 2003, 17:59   #2
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no... I didn't even know you could save threads...

maybe I should go back and find the threads where I get restricted... its funny to look back and see how stupid I am. I wish I could stop being stupid.
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Old January 25, 2003, 17:59   #3
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:02   #4
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Well, I hate typing in the same damn thing every 4 months in some Social Security thread, so I saved those so that I can just cut n paste w/o having to freakin' seach the OT. I have a lot of the real funny ones from the SDMB, including the TMI threads, the "dumb things you've said during sex" thread, and the LOTR thread (51 pages and counting!)
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:03   #5
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So do you just cut and paste stuff, or is there an actual link to save an entire thread as a file?
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:04   #6
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Do you save my threads?

I can't read your threads... the fonts don't translate to English.
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:04   #7
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So do you just cut and paste stuff, or is there an actual link to save an entire thread as a file?
File -> Save As

Just like everything else in Windows
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:07   #8
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well yeah, I know you can save web-pages, but I was wondering if there was like a text-only version, or printer-friendly version... you know, some format that is specifically designed for forum-archiving.
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:08   #9
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:09   #10
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So do you just cut and paste stuff, or is there an actual link to save an entire thread as a file?
Create a folder to put them (mine is creatively entitled "Saved Threads")

In IE, click on File
Click on "Save As..."
Save in proper directory. You will get the HTML file and a folder for that page containing all .gifs, jpegs, etc.

Repeat for each page. IE will give each page the same name (ala "Apolyton CS Forums Miscellaneous Off-Topic Star Wars is not Sci Fi!.html"), so you will have to add a

"- Page 1"

"- Page 2"

etc so that it becomes "Apolyton CS Forums Miscellaneous Off-Topic Star Wars is not Sci Fi! - Page 1.html".

The folder will be named "Apolyton CS Forums Miscellaneous Off-Topic Star Wars is not Sci Fi! - Page 1_files".

Yes, it saves the same damned gif files in each of the individual folders. But I've got 38gigs free so I'm not freaking out just yet.

Btw, WB!
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ahhh... thank you... I usually don't pay attention to all the little crap on the Apolyton pages ...
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:10   #12
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thx john...
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:10   #13
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I never save threads. Occasionally I'll save a link to a thread, but I'll generally clean them out after a month or two when I realize that I'm never going to look at the thread again.
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:14   #14
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I also have all my "arcade challenge" threads archived, and I'll start archiving the SF book discussion clubs (GO VOTE AND PARTICIPATE) next month or so.
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:31   #15
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The only thread I've ever saved is the "guess the real ming" thread.

And it only took one folder because i put 500 posts per page.
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Old January 25, 2003, 18:43   #16
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i've saved a few, including a second hand version of "guess the real ming".
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Can you save threads??
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I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.

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Old January 25, 2003, 21:21   #20
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- Evil Evil Finland
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- Suomithreadis I - XIV.

I used to have a dialup connection so I saved bunches of long threads to read them later offline, but nowadays I save threads only if I want to make sure there's a copy somewhere I can reach.
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Old January 25, 2003, 21:23   #21
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"Do you ever save threads?"

No. Why? Are they going extinct?
:looks at number of thread:
It certainly doesn't look like they are.

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The last time the forum software was updated, all the threads were lost. Except those people had saved.
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