Can't save web pages

I

Ira

I am trying to save a web page to Desktop, but when I
click File, then Save as...I then click Save to desktop
(or any other location) and I then get the following
message "The web page could not be saved to selected
location."

Can someone please tell me how to fix this? It had been
working ok up until the last few days. Something has
changed.

Thanks
 
M

Mary

If you find out, PLEASE let me know too. I can't save
anything, cannot download, and am getting an error message
from MSN that I cannot update.
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

Ira said:
I am trying to save a web page to Desktop, but when I
click File, then Save as...I then click Save to desktop
(or any other location) and I then get the following
message "The web page could not be saved to selected
location."

Can someone please tell me how to fix this? It had been
working ok up until the last few days. Something has
changed.

Thanks

This can happen if Outlook Express is not on your computer.

Also, some .asp pages cannot be saved.

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R

Robert Aldwinckle

Also, some .asp pages cannot be saved.

My workaround for that (e.g. save as Web Archive of KB article now fails)
is to do a File, Send, Page by E-Mail then let OE save it. If I save it with
an extension of .mht I can't tell the difference of what IE would have done.

Hmm... I just tried it with a web-mail message I happened to have opened.
The File, Save As, Web Archive worked and then the File, Send,...
didn't! My guess is that caching is going to be another factor but I will have
to do some more testing.

Nope that must be something else due to scripting. It's really bizarre though.
Even if I disable scripting and set Work Offline, each time I try to open
in its own window the frame I want to save I get something new that was never
shown to me before! I don't know if this is an .asp page or not; they won't
let me see the source of the frame. It's implemented in PERL (extension
is .pl) if it is. (I can see the frameset.)

I can't remember if I have ever been able to do this with pages from this
source. Clearly it is now coded to prevent me from doing it. Now the
question is what the heck is the difference between doing a File, Save As
(which works) and the File, Send,... (which doesn't)?

Hmm... I think I was just lucky with my File, Save As, Web Archive try.
Now it is getting the same fake error message that all of the other
methods were getting.

Oh, great. Now KB articles are being saved without any trouble?

Proving FWIW that nothing is constant on the WWW. ;)


Robert Aldwinckle
 
I

Ira

Mary...I don't have the rest of your problems, but as for
saving pages, I believe thru experimenting, that my
problem is with one specific site at Yahoo.com. I
discovered I can save other url's.
 

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