Article backup (export text option for authors)

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   thooghunposted 13 years ago

   I've gotten to the stage where I am getting a little worried about my online work disappearing or HP being taken down (I love it here, and as unlikely or as pessimistic as it may sound, it happens).
   
   I know many of you would advocate backing up offline, and its a habit I should've gotten into earlier, but I was wondering whether a way for authors to export their articles offline could ever be considered?

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      Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Almost all browsers have a Save As Web Page option that will save the HTML and the pictures and everything else to files on your machine.   Firefox, Chrome, Safari, maybe even IE.
      
      You can then do File, Open and admire your work whenever you wish.

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         thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the heads up!

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   Website Examinerposted 13 years ago

   I suggest that you check out the option - available in IE, Opera (and Firefox with an extension) - to save your hub as a "web archive" (.shs). This creates a single file with images, links and everything intact.

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      thooghunposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the help, I'll look into that as well.

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         Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         An important difference between the Web Archive format and the Save As Web Page Complete is that the Archive does NOT save images - it references them at their original source.
         
         Whether that is good or bad depends on what you want, if course.
         
         It also means that you can do File Open on a saved file and see it exactly as it  was when you saved it whether or not the web version still exists.  It is also much easier to move the page elsewhere as you have the images right there.
         
         Of course it takes up  more space and saves images you probably don't care about.

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            Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            PC Unix, what you are saying differs from my understanding of Web Archives; indeed images appear to be embedded into the file itself. Right-click on any image, check properties, and you will see that the location is the local drive. The article referenced below also appears to support this understanding.
            
            Links within images (such as your profile picture, for instance, which links to your HubPages profile) will still work interactively, meaning that if the source changes these links may no longer be operable.
            
            
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

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               Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Well, I just did a grep of "img src" and it showed them pointing to the source.  When I "Inspect Elenent" it shows the sane thing.
               
               Possibly it is because I am using Safari on a Mac?  Maybe IE  works like Web Page Complete does?
               
               That's the problem with browsers - you can't tryst 'em!
               
               But -even if they were imbedded - the Web Oage Complete has them as easily visible files that you can manipulate by themselves.

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               Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               I just checked that Wikipedia and it says what you said.
               
               BUT
               
               I used Safari to save a hub and then opened it with Safari, right clicked on an image nd asked to open that and it took me back to HubPages.
               
               If I do that with Chrome and its Web Page Complete Save, it takes me to a local file on my drive.
               
               Confusing stuff!!

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   Reality Bytesposted 13 years ago

   I just recently made copies of all my hubs at google docs pics and all showed up.  (Not shared).
   
   was this a good idea?

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      Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I understood the information at Google Docs to mean that as long as documents are not shared (or only shared via a private link), they will not show up in the search engines. If your hubs did show up, I would be surprised.

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         Reality Bytesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Is this a good place to store docs.  i do not really have a pc per se.

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            Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Sure, why not use Google Docs? They recently improved their file storage mechanisms.
            
            But I recommend that you create the Web Archive files that I mentioned above, then upload these to Google Docs. Clear the box that asks whether you want to convert the files to the Google Docs format. This way you will have a copy that is about as close to the original article as possible. You can even put several of the Web Archives into a zip file to make the job easier.

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            thranaxposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Usb drives or SD cards are ftw
            
            ~thranax~

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               Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               I agree, it is handier. Just don't lose them, and sometimes they do fail, so two backups is better than one.

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   Website Examinerposted 13 years ago

   The article I referenced does seem to suggest the format is not universally compatible across all browsers. Working with IE and Opera it is my impression that these images are stored and handled locally within a single file.

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      Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Looking at it more closely, it does seem to imbed the images.  It just does strange things with a right click.

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         Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks PC-Unix, it is always a pleasure discussing with you.

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   Mark Knowlesposted 13 years ago

   Guys - write it in an off-line text editor and paste it in to hubpages when it is finished. Then do not throw your copy away.

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   DonnaCSmithposted 13 years ago

   Really - what Mark said;o)

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