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I had a long thread up on my PC screen as a result of a Google Groups
search. Decided I'd copy it to my Pocket PC and read it elsewhere. I
was surprised to find after using the familiar File>Save As (with TXT
chosen as the file type), that I had a blank file. Just in case this
was down to Firefox (to which I changed 6 days ago), I fired up MSIE6
and tried the same page there. Almost the same result, except that I
had a single line referring to the google thread.

What's the reason for this please? Are some 'types' of page immune to
a File Save?

(I then used clipboard to achieve desired effect.)

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Terry, West Sussex, UK

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:39 +0000, Terry Pinnell wrote:

> I had a long thread up on my PC screen as a result of a Google Groups
> search. Decided I'd copy it to my Pocket PC and read it elsewhere. I
> was surprised to find after using the familiar File>Save As (with TXT
> chosen as the file type), that I had a blank file. Just in case this
> was down to Firefox (to which I changed 6 days ago), I fired up MSIE6
> and tried the same page there. Almost the same result, except that I
> had a single line referring to the google thread.
>
> What's the reason for this please? Are some 'types' of page immune to
> a File Save?
>
> (I then used clipboard to achieve desired effect.)

I think this is because google groups uses frames. When you tried to save
the page it tried to save the parent frame which just has a reference to
pages that make up sub-frames.
In Firefox if you right click in white space near the text of the thread
and choose "This Frame -> Show only this frame" then try saving it should
work (you can also open the frame in a new tab which should work as well).

Simon.
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Simon <nntp-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I think this is because google groups uses frames. When you tried to save
>the page it tried to save the parent frame which just has a reference to
>pages that make up sub-frames.
>In Firefox if you right click in white space near the text of the thread
>and choose "This Frame -> Show only this frame" then try saving it should
>work (you can also open the frame in a new tab which should work as well).

Thanks, Simon, that makes sense. And your method works fine!

It seems that only whole *threads* use frames then, as the first
individual post I tried saved OK with no special measures. Only after
selecting 'View Complete Thread' did I have to use your neat Frame
tip.

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Terry, West Sussex, UK