Forum Posts Feed
Slow Copying of Web Sites to Ultra Recall
< Next Topic | Back to topic list | Previous Topic >
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Mar 9, 2010 at 11:27 PM
And it is a very large and complex page (460KB)
Posted by J-Mac
Apr 26, 2012 at 05:58 PM
Sorry I’m late on this thread, but I have stopped using UR Pro altogether for capturing web pages; it just does not work well here at all.
I visited the BBC link in Firefox 9 and it loaded very quickly. I then used the UR extension to “Copy page to Ultra Recall”. Took 14 seconds to get the confirmation tone. I restored UR and clicked on the item for the BBC page and the browser pane was blank. So I clicked inside the pane and got a “wait” spinning circle. Page appeared after 9 seconds. However I cannot touch the page without freezing UR. Clicking anywhere on the page in UR causes “Non-responsive” in title bar and the wait spinner. Same if I click on the scroll bar in the UR browser pane. If I leave it alone it always goes into the Wait spin when I click on it; so instead I clicked on the scroll bar 11 times in a row, each time causing the wait spinner to appear for anywhere from 6 seconds to 22 seconds. Finally after the last time the page is now viewable. I can click on it and scroll it all I want.
But if I click on any other item and then return to that item, it goes into the same routine all over again, except it took even longer to get past the first wait spinner - 44 seconds. And when I clicked the page it did it again for 14 seconds. Then the page was usable again. But any time I come back to that item it behaves the same way with the exceedingly long wait times and being “non-responsive”.
I have tried capturing the pages from within UR at the suggestion of Kyle from UR, and it does allow UR to capture pages that it otherwise cannot do via any of the browsers, but trying to view those pages later within UR causes similar non-responsive problems.
My computer is a new one, built in January of this year. It has an Intel i7 960 6-core processor with 16 GB of Patriot Viper Xtreme DDR3 RAM and a GeForce GTX 570 Graphics card, running Windows 7 Professional x64-bit. So it shouldn?t be an “outdated computer” issue! Besides, I had very similar issues on my older computer too.
UR has rarely been able to capture web pages well for me. Occasionally after an update it does better but it seems to fall back into the same problems after a short time and a few Windows Updates. I’ve submitted support tickets in the past and UR does try to work with you on this, but if it is not solved after a few “stock” fixes then I stop hearing from them.
As it stands now I can capture web pages fairly accurately and consistently with other programs: RightNote is not fast but does it nicely; Martin Aignesberger’s Local Website Storage is fantastic - fast and accurate! Surfulater wasn?t working well with Firefox and the dev told me he wasn?t sure he could fix it and to use Chrome, so I haven’t tried captures with Surfulater in a while now. But I have pretty much given up on captures with Ultra Recall.
Thanks!
Jim
Posted by Cassius
Apr 26, 2012 at 10:14 PM
I’ve tested UR a couple of times for saving Web pages. Way too slow. I just tried copying the current http://www.bbc.co.uk using myBase/WebCollect. It took about 1 second.
-cassius