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Started 16 years ago by JKEngineer
Latest reply from Suze

JKEngineer
Member

A couple of weeks ago the comments page was no longer able to be saved. Attempting to save it resulted in a pop up saying "this webpage could not be saved", or words to that effect. The problem was discussed on a comment page and the problem went away, I assume due to action by GOTD.

It has returned, in spades. Now I cannot save the page and also cannot print it. If I try to print it, my browser hangs.

Please undo what appear to be security measures on the comments page. It contains useful information that I save into the directories where I download those programs that are of interest to me.
Thanks.

Posted 16 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

Probably as it's copyrighted that it's not working.

Use print screen if you want it that bad or copy and paste.

Posted 16 years ago #
JKEngineer
Member

It has worked before. It is working today. I can hardly credit that this is a copyright issue. I strongly suspect that it is a coding issue on the webpage and one whose purpose I disagree with.

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

JKEngineer, if you have any issues with "the coding issues" of the webpage - you should take them up with the site owners via the contact form on the main page. This is something that we have no control nor say over.

Posted 16 years ago #
Archangel
Member

Like Lee said, just a couple of mouse clicks and you'll still have the info. (Actually 3 clicks)

Right Click then

Select All
Copy

Create your folder
Paste

Posted 16 years ago #
jr46
Member

JKEngineer, is this a temporary problem? Have you checked to see if any of the previous pages you had trouble with are copiable now in the archives? It seems unlikely that GAOTD is doing this intentionally to prevent us from saving the pages. Maybe they were working on the page at that particular moment, or something.

Can you use the "View/Source" menu? Saving the source will give the same results as saving the page.

Posted 16 years ago #
Giveaway of the Day project team
Key Master

Hello guys,
try to save the page using different file name (instead of default), this might help. I guess the problem is caused by multiple dots in end of file name.

Posted 16 years ago #
maz
Member

Anyone who wants to save MY comments in any form whatever has first to obtain permissions from my solicitors: Plankt, Pursegurdle & Lumpe of Gray's Inn, London. Any copyright infringement will be vigorously pursued through all the courts of the United Kingdom and other available authorities, including, but not restricted to, detailed appeals to the House of Lords and the European Court of Human Rights.

Posted 16 years ago #
Anonymous
Unregistered

I hope you have a spare £500,000 k floating around.

Thats what you will be shelling out to get the case to a court.

Posted 16 years ago #
maz
Member

Lee,
Yeah, but you can't buy a sense of humour for double that...

Posted 16 years ago #
jinkazama
Member

but are all comments useful?? i doubt so...

Posted 16 years ago #
JKEngineer
Member

I have sent the same message thru the contact form.

Maz - Please contact my law firm, Dewey, Cheatem, & Howe, to set up an appointment to discuss terms and choice of seconds.

The inability to save is not driven by the filename. Using the menu to select file>save as, causes (when the problem occurs)an immediate popup box saying the webpage cannot be saved. This was discussed on the comments page a week or two ago, by me and others. The problem then went away. It has come back. And as of today, gone away again.

Posted 16 years ago #
Jucati
Member

is the browser 100% finished loading the page before you try to save it?

Do the advertisements on the page affect whether you can save it or not?

etc.

Posted 16 years ago #
BuBBy
Teh adnim

JKEngineer, when you find one of these pages - it would be helpful if you can post the details (which giveaway / date etc) and the exact error messages you are seeing.

I've just gone back several days and managed to save the comments pages for all of these days without issue. I'd like to be able to help but without being able to reproduce or see the problem myself - I can't really determine what is causing it.

Also, which browser are you using and if you have any plugins/extensions loaded - do you get the same results by disabling these? Also is there a complete copy of the webpage in your browsers cache?

Posted 16 years ago #
JKEngineer
Member

BuBBy -
The first instance of the problems occurred on FlashSpring Pro 2.2 (Sept 7). You will see 2 comments from me (and comments from others on the same page) about saving the page. Comment 42 reports I cannot save the page. #82 reports restored ability to save it.

I found the problem using both the AOL browser and IE 7. The more recent problem, which instigated this thread was worse, in that trying to print resulted in a browser hang. I am pretty sure it is not my machine or set-up. After all it goes away without my changing things, which I infer results from changes by GOTD. It is also reported by others.

Posted 16 years ago #
jinkazama
Member

have you tried Opera browser or firefox? have you tried printing it into pdf instead?

Posted 16 years ago #
JKEngineer
Member

Have not tried the other browsers.
Did try printing to pdf - hangs the browser.

Posted 16 years ago #
jinkazama
Member

you might want to wait for that giveaway to be over first then save that page. may help :)

Posted 16 years ago #
JKEngineer
Member

Problems saving or printing the comments page have recurred today, 1/21/08 for Direct Access.
A "save as" command immediately gives a pop-up alert that "the webpage could not be saved". Using Adobe Acrobat to print the page seems to work, until the output file is examined. It has the first part of the page - up to the comments header, and then 6 blank pages with only the page headers, but no comments.

This happens in both IE7 and inside AOL 9. (Previous events were in AOL7.)
I tried it in Firefox, which I only recently downloaded. Interestingly, after informing me that the file name was invalid, it downloaded the page successfully with a different file name (that I specified).
JK

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

personally I select the text from "giveaway of the day -" down and use filenote to paste it into a text file- no images, etc. if the oem link is abbreviated I 'copy link location' and paste it in as a second step, but that's the limit.

never a problem.

Posted 16 years ago #
goodgotd
Member

and I can append later comments, too.

Posted 16 years ago #
riverboatsam
Member

When I try to save my comment it appears to be saving, and then I get a "connecting to Facebook" message at the bottom of the screen. This is increasingly a problem for me (and perhaps others?) Facebook (and certain types of Adverts and streaming sites) are blocked at work. Apparently the saving of comments cannot go forward (!?) unless a connection is made to Facebook. Please consider allowing comments to be made either without requiring a connection to Facebook or allowing them after a reasonable time-out period has passed. Thank you.

Posted 8 years ago #
ChrisS
Administrator

riverboatsam, you might repost your message on the blog Giveaway of the Day Rebirth. There haven't been any new entries for quite some time but presumably it's still moderated and your message is specific to improving the new design.

Posted 8 years ago #
Suze
Member

ChrisS: that blog has not had any new entries since #28, on October 4th. And I know that messages that others have tried to post after that date do not "show." I don't know what the answer is, but clearly the moderators stopped any further posts from being viewed . . . Maybe, and hopefully, these posts are still being read, and taken into consideration.

Posted 8 years ago #

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