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When I try to save a web page to my local hard disk I get this error message, "The Web page could not be saved to the selected location"
All I'm trying to do is save a copy of a simple web page.
I can save an html webpage if I choose the option that removes all pictures (Web Page, HTML only (*.htm,*.html)) - however most of the time this option is useless being that web pages are highly graphic.
(I also tried *.mht format without success)
What a lame problem.
You probably have some type of animation in the page. You should be able to save the page if you go to internet options-Advanced, under Multimedia uncheck "Play videos in web pages"
you should be able to save it.
Some sites i.e. yahoo movies can only be saved if this box is unchecked.
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No videos in my web page (not into excessive/compulsive multi-media - it's annoying).
I'm just saving an simple web page.
This is what I'm trying to save (I have other examples as well)
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/backdoor.trojan.html
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Your right it does not save, however I used Netscape and saved it without a problem.
Not sure exactly what the problem is but sometimes the earlier suggestion works when saving via I.E.
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Here are two work arounds another work around, if you have Microsoft FrontPage you can select "Edit with Microsoft FrontPage" then save the page from the Frontpage program.
or
goto File-Send-page by email, then email it to yourself if you are using Outlook express you can save the email as .html and get the whole page.
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Sometimes I just do a screen capture to jpeg thereby bypassing the whole Windows/IE issue. I started doing this when I'd try to open saved web pages and they couldn’t for whatever reason. jpegs are stable and I can read stuff at a later time without a substantial investment in time.
You know, this was never a problem some years back. It's just a web page. WTF?!?!
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The explaination that I saw on another forum was the page is put together from two different locations, thus you cannot correctly save but not sure how that would screw it up. Seems like a M.S. screw up to me.
Probably the reason I use Netscape more than I.E., I get tired of the work arounds.
Anyway the emial thing seemed to work best when I tried it, if you do not have DSL or Broadband could be more of a pain to wait for the page to load.
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The email thing sort of worked. It looks like I received the email as an attachment (I use Microsoft Outlook). I can choose to open it or save it. The former works the latter doesn't (so, I still can't save that web page to my hard-disk). I am not sure if you still have to be connected to the internet to still open the attachment from Microsoft Outlook.
I think I'll just stick to screen captures. That seems to be the simplest solution and I know I can read the document at some later time without debugging, software installation and all that hoopla.
Anyway, thanks for you help.
-David
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