26-01-2003 02:57									#1
	Do you ever save threads? Increase Your PM Length

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.

	26-01-2003 02:59									#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.

	26-01-2003 02:59									#3
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Do you save my threads?

	26-01-2003 03:02									#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!)

	26-01-2003 03:03									#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?

	26-01-2003 03:04									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Stefu Do you save my threads?

I can't read your threads... the fonts don't translate to English.

	26-01-2003 03:04									#7
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quote: Originally posted by Sava 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

	26-01-2003 03:07									#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.

	26-01-2003 03:08									#9
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Top left of the page -- "Show a printable version"

	26-01-2003 03:09									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Sava 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!

	26-01-2003 03:09									#11
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ahhh... thank you... I usually don't pay attention to all the little crap on the Apolyton pages ...

	26-01-2003 03:10									#12
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thx john...

	26-01-2003 03:10									#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.

	26-01-2003 03:14									#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.

	26-01-2003 03:31									#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.

	26-01-2003 03:43									#16
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i've saved a few, including a second hand version of "guess the real ming".

	26-01-2003 05:05									#17
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Can you save threads??

	26-01-2003 05:50									#18
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No, generally I prefer destroying them.

	26-01-2003 06:13									#19
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Too bad there's not even a single Fez left to bash

(isn't it time to scrap that christmas hat, Boris?)

	26-01-2003 06:21									#20
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I've got

- Evil Evil Finland
- Guess the real Ming
- Beyond Alpha Centauri
- 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.

	26-01-2003 06:23									#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.

	26-01-2003 06:31									#22
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No.

	26-01-2003 06:52									#23
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The last time the forum software was updated, all the threads were lost. Except those people had saved.