Re: My current set

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Posted by 100341.2151
2005-08-24 18:38:46

Graham -

> I gave up on getting Net Snippets and Zoot to work togther. It actually worked well, but Zoot won’t automatically link with sub-directories. Net Snippets would therefore creat new sub-directories which I would then have to manually add into Zoot.

It’s a pity about the NetSnippets-Zoot integration problem. I was hoping you would come up with a solution for all of us :-).

Like you, I spent a lot of time looking at web-capture software which would preserve pages in their original form. Many (e.g., SurfSaver, ContentSaver, etc.), however, saved data to their databases
in compressed or proprietary format.

NetSnippets was one of the few that saved pages as standard htm ones (but not in .mht, unfortunately, which would have been neater). In fact one of the reasons I changed over from ContentSaver to NetSnippets was that I wanted to be able to index my “snipped” web-pages for use with a search program like dtSearch, without having to re-convert them first back into htm files.

Scrapbook saves in html, so it could also be used in this way. The only problem is that its data are hidden rather deep in the Mozilla directories, and scattered over many files. On my notebook the files are at: c:\\Documents and Settings\\Derek Cornish\\Application Data\\Mozilla\\Firefox\\Profiles\\default.4zj\\ScrapBook\\data\\20050824164212\

So, despite the advantages of Scrapbook - especially its integration with FireFox - I’ll probably stick with NetSnippets. It works with a range of browsers, its system for organizing files is a standard Windows one, and dtSearch is easy to use with its files.

I do like Scrapbook, though. It’s so easy and elegant to use.

Derek

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