The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #99036   Message #2319907
Posted By: JohnInKansas
19-Apr-08 - 06:28 AM
Thread Name: Tech: Computer, Disc C Nearly Full
Subject: RE: Tech: Computer, Disc C Nearly Full
Where is the Save command in IE or Firefox?

I can't speak to Firefox, but in IE the "File" button has both "Save" and "Save As" on the dropdown list. On web pages, the "Save" usually is "grayed out" and unusable - something to do with "you're not the creator so you don't have edit rights," or something of the sort.

The difficulty is that for IE7, by default the "Menu Bar" where you used to find "File" is turned off. You have to go to the "tools cockleburr" at the right end of the main bar to turn on the toolbar (put a check at "Menu bar") to get the standard File Edit View etc buttons.

In IE7 you can also click on the "Page" button, next to the "Tools," and the dropdown has "Save As" on it, although "Save" doesn't appear there.

I find the "Save As" very much preferable to the straight "Save," since I always want to put the saved item in the right place in the 7,587 folders on my "scratch disk" where I keep notes on my web browsing. Since web pages come in a few different formats, Save As also lets me confirm that I'm going to get a stable .mht file and not a bucketful of files and folders with corruptible links.

John