XP, Win98 & saved 1901 Census webpages

[Ann.McClean]

Will try again:

Back in 2002, I spent many happy hours on the 1901 census site,
searching, printing AND saving many web pages.

Recently I went back to my file of saved 1901 pages to check on one
family, and there was nothing there! Checked all my other saved web
pages, and it was the same.

BUT as I'm visiting my parents this weekend, I've been checking over
my Laptop that I take with me, and find I had copied over the 1901 file -
and guess what, I can view all the 1901 transcription webpages!

I use XP Home on my home computer and Windows98 on the Laptop.
There have been quite a few changes with the home computer, not least
3 new hard drives since 2001 + it has a lot more security software
because I'm now on broadband. The laptop only has AVG, Spybot
& PopUp Stopper.

Any ideas, anyone, as to why this is?

[coenmfam]

There are a number of possibilities

1. If you saved them on your home computer and Meant to copy them to your laptop, you may have Moved them instead ....

2. Unless you saved them to a specific folder, a program like Ashampoo's win-optimizer or webwasher may have erased them.

3. Unless you saved them to a specific folder instead of Internet Explorer's cache , Internet Explorer may have erased them after a certain length of time. Web pages saved this way have expirey dates.

Here are some suggestions.

* Deleted : should have read the original post more carefully

* I would also suggest making a backup of your data to a CD-Rom, this has been discussed in these forums - use a high quality "gold" CD.

* If you have MS Word, you may edit the webpage and save it as a word document.


hope this helps
Nev

[Peter Goodey]

Ann


The likeliest explanation is that you've simply lost some files. Those three new hard drives may have a lot to do with it!

For each webpage saved eg 'my_saved_page', you should have my_saved_page.htm plus a sub-folder called my_saved_page_files. This in turn should contain two more sub-folders. Each sub-folder should contain something useful and essential for display of the page.

Do you actually have the same configuration of files on the two PCs?

[Ann.McClean]

3. Unless you saved them to a specific folder instead of Internet Explorer's cache , Internet Explorer may have erased them after a certain length of time. Web pages saved this way have expirey dates.

* I would also suggest making a backup of your data to a CD-Rom, this has been discussed in these forums - use a high quality "gold" CD.

I think no. 3 is the reason - the webpages were saved in XP, backed-up
to CD and thus copied onto my laptop which runs Win98.

Might try copying from the back-up CD back into XP and see what
happens.

Many thanks for your help.

[Ann.McClean]

Ann


The likeliest explanation is that you've simply lost some files. Those three new hard drives may have a lot to do with it!

For each webpage saved eg 'my_saved_page', you should have my_saved_page.htm plus a sub-folder called my_saved_page_files. This in turn should contain two more sub-folders. Each sub-folder should contain something useful and essential for display of the page.

Do you actually have the same configuration of files on the two PCs?

I also wondered if the changes of hard drives might have something to do with it, BUT when I go into the folder where I saved all the 1901 webpages, I can sometimes see something in the thumbnail down on the left hand side, when there is nothing on the main screen.
Have also looked at the _file folders that accompany the saved web pages, but nothing there.

Do saved [paid for] webpages have a time out? I wasn't aware of that.

As stated above, might try copying from the back-up CD back into XP and see what happens.

Regards, Ann.

[Peter Goodey]

A minor point...you do have javascript enabled in your XP browser don't you?

And when you said "Have also looked at the _file folders that accompany the saved web pages, but nothing there", did you mean they were empty? (They mustn't be!). Or that there was nothing suspicious there?

[Ann.McClean]

A minor point...you do have javascript enabled in your XP browser don't you?

And when you said "Have also looked at the _file folders that accompany the saved web pages, but nothing there", did you mean they were empty? (They mustn't be!). Or that there was nothing suspicious there?

Yes, javascript is enabled.

The _file folders had all the webpage bits and bobs - buttons, .gifs, etc., but no text/image files of the Census search & transcript pages.

N.B. no probs with the saved enumerator's page images as they were .tiff files.

BUT, have found my back-up CD and copied over my 1901 folder, and guess what - it works! There's a moral here somewhere :)

Cheers, Ann.

[Peter Goodey]

"The _file folders had all the webpage bits and bobs - buttons, .gifs, etc., but no text/image files of the Census search & transcript pages. "


There aren't any! They're generated by Javascript!

Anyway, since you've now got them working from the backup, the files clearly were not all there before