Is there a way to copy all my posts to a word doc?

[Emi2]

I've posted so much here and on a parenting forum that its like a journal/diary and I'm worried one of those sites will get shut down and all my posts will be gone. Is there someway other than copying and pasting every post ( a hundred took my 2 hours!) to save them?

[teyrn]

That is about the only way you can do it. Start now writing your posts in word and saving it every time you post. Just one ongoing word document of posts.

[zahir]

That is about the only way you can do it. Start now writing your posts in word and saving it every time you post. Just one ongoing word document of posts.

hi my first post here !

You are absolutly right teyrn ...... this is just option for it..

regards

[Emi2]

fun times ahead then lol!

[Patonb]

Have fun.. Make a game out of it..... yha.... Have fun.

[Wise Young]

Emi2,

There is a way to do it.

First, do a search for all your posts. Make sure that you select posts rather than threads. This should give you a list of all the posts that you have made. I have set the search to list only 50 posts per page and you may have to go multiple pages.

Second, use a program that downloads web sites for offline browsing. Such programs will download everything from a given URL address that you give it, up to a specified number of link depths. You need to give it at least 4 links deep because that would collect all the linked pages for the entire list.

Here are some off-line browser programs for Windows:
http://www.surfoffline.com/ (Windows, commercial)
http://www.httrack.com/ (Windows/Linux/Unix, free)
http://www.maximumsoft.com/products/wc_windows/overview.html (Windows, 15-day free trial, $30)
http://webstripper.net/ (Windows)
http://www.metaproducts.com/
http://www.spidersoft.com/webzip/
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/blackwidow.htm

Here are some programs for the Mac:
Blue Crab 4.8.5 http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=03798&cat=11&platform=osx&method=sa/BlueCrab.dmg

Another possibility is to use your web browser to save (instead of copying and pasting). For example, safari has a plug in called Red Snapper that captures the exact web page, eliminating the need to cut and paste. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/redsnapper.html

There is an interesting program called "web assistant" which automatically and transparently builds a database of all pages that you visit. This way, even if you are not connected to internet, you can always have access to all web sites that you have posted. http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/ This way, all you have to do is to search for your own posts and then click on all of them and the program will automatically cache all the pages. If you then leave it on for then on, it should capture all your posts and surfing on CareCure.


Wise.

[Wise Young]

Emi2,

After all of that, I guess that I have not answered your original question of whether your can put all your posts into a Word Document. I did not answer because I think that it is not a good idea to do so. Word is not a particularly good text database.

Because CareCure Forum posts have links to internet and internal locations, you would lose all the connections and context of the posts if you were to just copy and paste your posts from CareCure web site into word. Word does not internal hyperlinking of texts but you have to do all this manually and that is probably more work than the copying and pasting.

In the long run, as I understand it, what you really want is to be able to have a record of all your posts and related posts on internet. The best way to achieve this is to have a cache of all your surfing on carecure. That way, every page that you have looked at (including of course your own) would be there even if the site is no longer there.

You can use some of these so-called offline browsing programs to create a snapshot of a current search list of all your posts. You can store this on a DVD somewhere for archival purposes. But, in terms of day to day use, you would want to use something like the internet assistant for caching all pages that you look at. The above of course assumes that you are doing all your browsing from one computer.

I have been trying out an add-on extension from Google called Open Notebook. What this does is to create a copy any website that I am surfing and then placing it on the same server that Google uses to hold my gmail. It is convenient if you want to record a post of yours.

The question that you ask is important because I know that many people have been writing probably more on carecure than they are writing anywhere. It is sort of like a blog of a community of 15,000 people with spinal cord injury. I was sick to my heart when Cando closed down in 2001 with all the contents of Spinewire.

By the way, I offered $40,000 of my own money to the company to buy the contents from them but they refused. I would find very difficult to forgive the venture capitalists who made the decision to sell the database to somebody else for not much more. This is one of the reasons why I have been so protective of the CareCure database here. I don't want anybody else ever to own the database and, to the beset of my ability, will make sure that it is available to community.

Wise.

[Emi2]

THANK YOU WISE! I will try some of those suggestions/programs... Between posting here for 5 years and at a parenting site for 3 I have close to 7000 posts. I don't keep a journal but the posts are sort of like that.

[Patonb]

Actually Dr Wise, straight copy and paste DOES paste the urls as working addresses.

[sjean423]

Another question here. For instance when I search all posts by Em I only find the most recent 500. I know the others are there, but how to get them to show up?

[Wise Young]

Actually Dr Wise, straight copy and paste DOES paste the urls as working addresses.

Patonb,

Yes, copy and paste of URL addresses will produce a list of clickable links to the posts. I thought that Emi2 was concerned with preserving the contents of what she has written.

Wise.

[Emi2]

Another question here. For instance when I search all posts by Em I only find the most recent 500. I know the others are there, but how to get them to show up?

I have a hard time getting all mine too... sometimes they just pop up. on the old Carecure I posted as Emi, which changed to my full name when they switched forums but I wasn't comfortable with my full name so I became Emi2! lol

[Patonb]

Patonb,

Yes, copy and paste of URL addresses will produce a list of clickable links to the posts. I thought that Emi2 was concerned with preserving the contents of what she has written.

Wise.

She has us both thinking different things.... So now I see what you meant.

[Wise Young]

I have a hard time getting all mine too... sometimes they just pop up. on the old Carecure I posted as Emi, which changed to my full name when they switched forums but I wasn't comfortable with my full name so I became Emi2! lol

Emi2,

In the advanced post mode, you can specify searches for posts before or after a particular date. I suggest that you divide your searches by time.

Wise.

[Wise Young]

I want to report on my use of the program MM3-WebAssistant program that I listed below.

• Program. This is a program which sets up a "proxy server" in your computer which essentially collects all the web pages that you visit and puts them on your proxy server so that when you don't have an internet connection, you can still go and look through everything that you have browsed in the past. The program comes in two forms: private and professional. The program gives you a one-month license to try the professional version, which has several features that the private dedition does not:
1. It allows you to search through your archived web sites
2. It allows you to filter your archived web sites, such as advertisements
3. It allows you to set up different parameters for different locations.
4. It allows you to automatically fetch pages up to a specific depth of links
Both the private and professional versions can do the following:
5. automatically archive all web pages visited.
6. on- and off-line browing is exactly the same. All you do is switch.
7. burn a site or many sites onto CD for backup or archive.
8. available on many operating systems.

• Installation. This was relatively simple (at least on the mac, I have not yet tried installing this into Windows). The following applies only to the Mac. You download a 1.3 Mb zip file containing the programs. You double-click it and you get a folder tha contain several folders (config, documentation, lib) and a MM3-WebAssistant.jar program. If you double-click the MM3-WebAssistant.jar program, it opens up a small window called MM3-WebAssistant Prfoessional with three icons. When you start to use it, it will take you to a web site to install the program. You go to your browser and assign it a proxy server. The program gives you the IP address of the server on your computer and prompts you to give a name for the proxy server database. If you select the professional version (which I did), the program takes you to a web site where you can apply for a one-month license sent o your email. The mail contains a text license file and you "import" that license file with your webassistant program.

• Running the program. First, I must say that the web archive database takes up quite a lot of space and quite rapidly. In one day of working on CareCure and associated files, I generated over 85 Mb. Second, it does slow down your web serving a bit. There is a 1-2 second pause before your web page pops up, presumably because the program is comparing the web data to what is in its archive. I set the program to display in green color differences between the new web page with what had been loaded before. Third, it works. If I unlink the browsing with internet, I can go to all the pages that I had visited before and faster than directly browsing the site ovrer internet.

• Options. The program operates with a browser. So, when you want to change settings, it opens up a web page on your proxy server with your browser.
1. tell it to identify links that have been visited (blue) and information that have changed from the previous visit (green).
2. You can set it so that it does not download advertising.
3. It can remove temporary identifiers in the URL addresses. This is very useful because this means that it will retain only the main URL address for a thread or post that you are writing and it does not store all those pages.

• Browsing offline.
The amazing thing is that it works.

Wise.

[Wise Young]

I found a bug in the MM3. It apparently will not allow me to upload an attachment file until I turned off the proxy server in Firefox. All you have to do on Firefox is to set the browser to make a direct connection to internet when you have to attach something to a posting.

Wise.