Hi,
I am using FrontPage 2002 and want to know if there is a way to
download my site through FrontPage to my harddrive. I can't see a way?
Thanks
Jim

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 19 Jul 2004 09:29 PDT

Jim,

Do you require that this be done through FrontPage, or will another method do?

What Operating System and browser are you using?

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Clarification of Question by tucsonjim-ga on 19 Jul 2004 10:43 PDT

Hi Aceresearcher,
Yes I need to do it through FrontPage because it's the only
access I have to the server. I'd FTP in a heartbeat if I had
the server address, but I don't. It's a long story but it's
my server, run by a guy who's giving me a hard time and won't
give me the server address, and so on. 

So, for now, as a work-a-round I was hoping to get a copy of my site
through FrontPage. My OS is Win-XP Home, and my browser 
is MSIE6. Hope you can help.
Thanks
Jim

Jim,

I recommend that you try saving the web pages from your site
one-by-one using Internet Explorer.

For each page on your site (in Internet Explorer): 

Click on the "File" menu in the upper left-hand corner of Internet
Explorer, Select "Save As", browse to the folder where you want to
save it (You may want to click the "New Folder" icon and create a
folder called "My Website").

This should save all of the files associated with that page, including
.jpgs, .gifs, and .css .

Make sure that the filename is what you want it to be, that Save As
Type is "Web Page, complete (*.htm, *.html), and that Encoding is
"Unicode UTF-8".

Here's a tutorial on the "Save As" command, from .net magazine:
http://www.netmag.co.uk/ie5/save-page.htm


If this does not work for you, please post a Clarification stating
that, and I'll work with you to get the job done.

If you are able to do so, posting your website address would be
helpful (put a space before and after each dot [.] if you wish to
avoid a hyperlink to that address).


Before Rating my Answer, if you have any Questions about or problems
with the above information, please post a Request for Clarification,
and I will see what I can do for you.

Regards,

aceresearcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by tucsonjim-ga on 23 Jul 2004 08:12 PDT

Hi,
Phew...this is a toughie. I really don't like to have a researcher
spend his or her time an not get paid, and yet there was no way that I
could use Internet Explorer to download the pages one-by-one. The site
has 14,000 files and is 825Mb in size, it would have taken forever.
Also, with this method how would I get the images folders, Java files,
Javascript files and so on? I wouldn't.

Here's what I did do. I found that I could download from within
FrontPage 2002 by going to MENU/OPEN which opens the website tree
structure, and then right clicking which opens a dropdown menu, and
then clicking on SendTo. I sucessfully downloaded the whole site this
way, yep it took quite a while but we got the site.

I also found that once I entered the site address in My Network Places
that I could then download from Microsoft Explorer (not MSIE).

So, aceresearcher, please tell me what you think?
Thanks
Jim

Hi,
This is a really good answer, but can only be applied to smaller
websites as it becomes too time-consuming as you go up in website
size. It does get the job done though.

Don't do it one by one!  Simply use Mozilla Firefox 0.9.2 with the
SpiderZilla extension easily obtainable from
http://www.update.mozilla.org and it will automatically make a folder
with every page on your domain.  I tested it out on anandtech.com and
specified 5 link depth and it came back with over 1,000 pages and
500megs, very cool little util. i must say.

Hi paulstamatiou,
Wow, what a great answer. It's too late for me now, because I've
already downloaded the site by using the workaround described above,
but as a webdesigner this looks like it could be a great tool for me,
I'll give it a try.

Now I have another problem, if you post a comment with an answer for
me, and I use it, shouldn't I be paying you?
Thanks 
Jim