05-02-2009, 08:06 AM
I've been frettin' for some time now that the old Gauge may some day disappear from lack of traffic, and have looked for ways to rescue some of my favorite threads there. I started by copying and pasting the text to a Word document, leaving a few empty lines where the pictures were inserted, and keeping track of which pictures went there....As you can imagine, this was quite time consuming and didn't get through even one of the threads....Last night my son who came up to visit (he's a digital controls engineer and kind of a PC nerd) showed me how in a few minutes' time I could copy the entire thread, page by page, pictures and all..!! 
Here's how it's done....
Go to Z, open the thread you want to rescue. On the tool bar, click "File" and then "Save as", and direct it to save in whatever folder you want (I created a main folder in "My Documents" called OLD GAUGE, and a subfolder for each thread, and saved it there.) Don't rename the page when you save it, just use the default name the system uses since it's already got the thread name and a page number. Go to the next page on the thread and do the same...and so on....I copied about 10 threads in a little over half an hour.....
The only down side to this, is that links that were made to the old Gauge do not work if the links were not "updated" after the transfer to the new servers/forum...But something is better than nothing....
So stop "frettin' " and rescue your favorite threads....
Here's how it's done....
Go to Z, open the thread you want to rescue. On the tool bar, click "File" and then "Save as", and direct it to save in whatever folder you want (I created a main folder in "My Documents" called OLD GAUGE, and a subfolder for each thread, and saved it there.) Don't rename the page when you save it, just use the default name the system uses since it's already got the thread name and a page number. Go to the next page on the thread and do the same...and so on....I copied about 10 threads in a little over half an hour.....
The only down side to this, is that links that were made to the old Gauge do not work if the links were not "updated" after the transfer to the new servers/forum...But something is better than nothing....
So stop "frettin' " and rescue your favorite threads....
Gus (LC&P).