The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99036   Message #2319487
Posted By: JohnInKansas
18-Apr-08 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: Tech: Computer, Disc C Nearly Full
Subject: RE: Tech: Computer, Disc C Nearly Full
I almost never use "Save" for anything from the web, since that puts the file "wherever" - usually in the folder where I made the last save, which may be completely wrong for the new article.

Using "Save As" should show you the filename that will be used and the location where it's going to land.

If you see a useless title, with Save As you have the opportunity to type (or paste) something else before you click to do the save.

Some programs will let you access the page after you've opened a Save As dialog, where you can highlight, Ctl-C, and Ctl-V to paste the thread name in the Save As box. Other programs may use a different kind of box that "locks you in" so that you'd have to copy the title before you click on the Save As button.

Even with IE, some sites (who should know better) use the same default file name for anything you copy/download from the site. (The "Save Target As" for .pdf files seems especially prone to this.) This seems to happen quite regularly on sites that use JScript "calls," but I haven't bothered to probe all the possible causes.

Another reason for consistently using "Save As" rather than just "Save" is that IE fairly frequently "defaults" the file type for the save back to .htm, and I much prefer having everything in the .mht (Save as Archive Single File Web Page) since that format is much more stable on your machine.

John