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| ai28ma 2004-02-24, 7:42 am |
| What does the menu item "Synchronize" under "Tools" in IE do, when I press "Synchronize" in the following window? Apparantly,it tries to save it for offline use somewhere on my hard disk? But where?!
Thank you for your attention. | |
| Dr. C 2004-02-24, 10:32 am |
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Originally posted by ai28ma
What does the menu item "Synchronize" under "Tools" in IE do, when I press "Synchronize" in the following window? Apparantly,it tries to save it for offline use somewhere on my hard disk? But where?!
Thank you for your attention.
Add the pages you want to view offline to your favorites menu. Then before you go offline, click synchronize, and it will save the page for offline viewing. Go to "File" then click "Work Offline" then you can work on the file offline. by going to your favorites. | |
| ai28ma 2004-02-25, 5:00 am |
| Thanks Dr. C.
Now the follow-up question:
How can I automate this action?
Background:
I would like to synchronize many many pages, this is an online documentation we're talking about. How can I do this most efficiently? Is there a tool for it? Can I write macros in IE?
Much obliged | |
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| quote:
Originally posted by ai28ma
Thanks Dr. C.
Now the follow-up question:
How can I automate this action?
Background:
I would like to synchronize many many pages, this is an online documentation we're talking about. How can I do this most efficiently? Is there a tool for it? Can I write macros in IE?
Much obliged
Personally, if I needed to synchronize many pages I would use the wget utility. You could write a little script that you could schedule to run at certain times and compare the files on the remote server with the ones on your local machine, then synchronize the pages if the timestamp is different. There are macros available for IE, but I have never used them. | |
| DaDnDe 2004-02-26, 7:37 pm |
| im just a bit curious as to why you would want to synch a lot of pages?
i guess if you had a terribly slow dial up connect or something, it might be of benefit, but i hadnt realized that this operation was that common anymore...
i used to do it years ago when i had slow dial up and used to read several newspapers daily. it was conveinent to download them for viewing later... but that was because i had(still do) 4 computers connected to one dial up and it was sloooowwww...especially if i was downloading updates and drivers for other computers etc...
http://www.geocities.com/daveinolywa/images/nocharge.jpg |
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