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Blog EntrySaving your 360 blogs (tutorial)Oct 17, '07 12:30 AM
for everyone




At the first hint of 360 possibly going away I saved my blogs to my hard drive. Unfortunately, many people have quite a few more blogs than me...It took me about an hour for 400+ blog entries. I did not save comments...As it was all my entries took about 80MB hard drive space.

Here is what you need to do:

  1. Create a folder on your hard drive for your 360 Blog Entries. Name it appropriately (i.e. Y!360 Blog) and put it in a place you will remember such as your 'My Documents' folder.
  2. Go to your blog. On your browser's tool bar click 'File', 'Save Page As', browse for the folder you previously created and save. Be aware that you will need to change the file name for each page! If you do not the pages will all have the same name and you will be wasting your time. The easiest method for me was to add a number to the end of the file name. This will also help you to distinguish your latest blog entries from your oldest blog entries. For example a file name will look like this: blog-T88g5tsic6caB_3sqAu8yg--.htm All you will need to do is add a number like this: blog-T88g5tsic6caB_3sqAu8yg--1.htm. Note where I have placed the number "1". Be sure not to erase the 'dot' and 'htm' extension!
  3. Continue clicking the 'Next' button on your blog and repeat these steps for each page.
  4. When you are finished you will have a folder with HTM files and their coordinating folders (the folders will contain all information related to that page such as images, CSS files, and javascript files). Make sure all of these stay in your folder or your saved pages will not display properly!
  5. To open your saved, off line files, right click the ".HTM" file and choose "Open With" and browse for your browser (i.e. Internet Explorer or FireFox).
If you are only interested in saving your written content you will have to copy and paste EACH individual entry. This will take a great deal of time and you would be better off to use the method I've described.

If you are not yet on MASH, please, send me a private message or leave a comment with your email address and I will be very happy to send you an invitation. I also offer any assistance you may need in setting up your new page. I already have a Mash Themes page set up (http://mash.yahoo.com/themesbyshanda ) to help you decorate your profile and there are other themes and help pages as well!

Good luck, love, and peace to all of you...
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osuzana wrote on Nov 11, '07
Good tutorial. I really want to save the comments though. They are my favorite part. I actually printed my posts out. It will make a handy door stop for future generations.
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