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kcmule
Starting Member
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 Posted - 10 May 2006 : 23:53:02
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| was wondering what the best way to save a thread is. i'm talking on a permanent basis, so years after my forum is gone i can still read it |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 10 May 2006 : 23:59:24
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"after my forum is gone" .. does this mean when you remove the thread, the database, or the domain ?
You could simply save each page as HTML, but they won't link together very well.
Can you define "save a thread" a little bit more ?
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kcmule
Starting Member
19 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2006 : 16:14:28
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i'm talking entire web site gone
i'm hoping there's a way to make a 'standalone thread' that would reside on a hard drive and be used for reading purposes only. there's one i have in mind and it is ~30 pages long. regarding your html suggestion, is there perhaps a way to point snitz to a database that resides on a hard drive instead of a web server?
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
3859 Posts |
Posted - 11 May 2006 : 18:11:35
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is there perhaps a way to point snitz to a database that resides on a hard drive instead of a web server?
A lot of people use this methodoloy anyway for testing. Create a webserver on your own PC (install IIS or PWS) and set it up so it works. Then you simply download your Snitz database and you can apply MODs on your "development" copy and then migrate them to your "production" (ie real life) copy when done.
You can use a similar approach and keep a database copy on your computer so when the website is gone you can still read (& post) to the database ... just that no one else can read it  |
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TonyB7
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 12 May 2006 : 00:30:06
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Actually, I've looked for this feature as well, but as yet it doesn't exist. What you're asking for is a way to save topics offline. ie, outside the db. Plain text would be fine.
It should probably just be an add-on to the archiving function. When an old topic is written to archive.txt, it's deleted from the db, freeing up space.
Currently I've taken to manually deleting old topics in an effort to keep my Access db bloat down, and that's really not what I want to do.
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
3859 Posts |
Posted - 12 May 2006 : 01:38:11
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Just bouncing off TonyB7's post ...
Have you tried the "Printer Friendly" option - this may get all the thread output on a single page.
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When an old topic is written to archive.txt, it's deleted from the db, freeing up space.
Freeing up space where ? ... you reduce data in the database but have another text file on the same (??) disk. Surely the database would store the text more efficiently ? |
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kcmule
Starting Member
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Posted - 15 May 2006 : 21:41:38
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Have you tried the "Printer Friendly" option - this may get all the thread output on a single page.
This is what I was looking for. If you click on "Printer Friendly" in IE, you can save the output as an MHTML page (one standalone file including images that opens with IE), as a Complete Web Page (html and a file folder with images), or as simple text (no images).
thanks for the brainstorm folks |
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laser
Advanced Member
Australia
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Posted - 15 May 2006 : 22:26:46
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no probs, sorry I didn't think of it earlier but I never print anything from the forum  |
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