Can't Save Some Web Pages

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James Stroker - 31 Jan 2004 08:35 GMT

I run IE5 with Windows 98se and every once in a while when I try to save a
web page I get the message, "unable to save to this location." Does anyone
know why this happens, or how to cure this problem?

Thanks

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Hans Le Roy - 31 Jan 2004 17:50 GMT

> I run IE5 with Windows 98se and every once in a while when I try to
> save a web page I get the message, "unable to save to this location."
> Does anyone know why this happens, or how to cure this problem?
>
> Thanks

Hi James,

You don't give examples of those pages, but some pages cannot be saves
(pages that are not cached, pages generated with the input of a form, ...)

Kind regards

Hans

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James Stroker - 31 Jan 2004 21:16 GMT

> > I run IE5 with Windows 98se and every once in a while when I try to
> > save a web page I get the message, "unable to save to this location."
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> Hans

Hans, I don't bother trying to save forms and java applets, but what I
can't save at times are just web pages that-- as far as I know-- contain
only text and whatever pictures are on the webpage. I can save those same
pages with Netscape but not with my usual browser, IE 5.

J.

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Hans Le Roy - 31 Jan 2004 21:56 GMT

Hi,

You still don't give examples/addresses, so I can't say anything more...

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE

> > > I run IE5 with Windows 98se and every once in a while when I try to
> > > save a web page I get the message, "unable to save to this location."
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> J.

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hesterloli - 21 Jun 2008 10:25 GMT

>I run IE5 with Windows 98se and every once in a while when I try to save a
>web page I get the message, "unable to save to this location." Does anyone
>know why this happens, or how to cure this problem?
>
>Thanks

Yes man. If you try to save a webpage that is using a css file like so:

<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="styles.css" TYPE="text/css">

and styles.css doesn't exist (it's a bad web page) you cannot save as a htm
file. Not sure about saving as HTML file but I wouldn't be surprised if the
same occurred. It is easy to test. No cure unless you get the site to fix
their web pages.

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