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George
Airman PD,
I tried your suggestion, and it helped, at least in a
theoretical sense, but it also brought up some new issues.
First of all, I discovered by experimenting with copying
the top-level folder to my desktop that there were
*pathnames that were too long* (according to the error
messages I got) for Windows to handle. I do have about
seven levels of folders, so that did not totally surprise
me. So, I temporarily removed those folders and files with
the long pathnames, and then the Windows copying process to
the Windows CD Burning folder worked.
Then, I decided to try your Zip method using Windows'
built-in Zip utility. Well, everything -- *including* the
previously mentioned folders with the pathnames that were
too long -- copied over OK into the Windows zip file. So,
presumably if I were to try to burn this using Windows' CD
burning utility, I would not have the problem with data
loss (missing folders and files) that I had before.
But, I discovered that any saved Web pages would not open
the *images* that were saved in their corresponding "web
page filename_files" folder. Only the *text* of the HTML
page was showing. A problem, but not too bad. So, I
extracted them. Well, when I extracted the whole top-level
folder that had been zipped, I got a bunch of pop-up
messages prompting me to enter a *password* for many of
these files, as well as a few Word files. There are *no*
passwords on any of these files or folders. So, I had to
skip extracting those files and therefore lost dozens of
files.
Any idea as to why this happened, or other comments?
Thanks again.
George
I tried your suggestion, and it helped, at least in a
theoretical sense, but it also brought up some new issues.
First of all, I discovered by experimenting with copying
the top-level folder to my desktop that there were
*pathnames that were too long* (according to the error
messages I got) for Windows to handle. I do have about
seven levels of folders, so that did not totally surprise
me. So, I temporarily removed those folders and files with
the long pathnames, and then the Windows copying process to
the Windows CD Burning folder worked.
Then, I decided to try your Zip method using Windows'
built-in Zip utility. Well, everything -- *including* the
previously mentioned folders with the pathnames that were
too long -- copied over OK into the Windows zip file. So,
presumably if I were to try to burn this using Windows' CD
burning utility, I would not have the problem with data
loss (missing folders and files) that I had before.
But, I discovered that any saved Web pages would not open
the *images* that were saved in their corresponding "web
page filename_files" folder. Only the *text* of the HTML
page was showing. A problem, but not too bad. So, I
extracted them. Well, when I extracted the whole top-level
folder that had been zipped, I got a bunch of pop-up
messages prompting me to enter a *password* for many of
these files, as well as a few Word files. There are *no*
passwords on any of these files or folders. So, I had to
skip extracting those files and therefore lost dozens of
files.
Any idea as to why this happened, or other comments?
Thanks again.
George
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Zip the folder up, then burn the zipped file.
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