How to set Windows Explorer so that an html file and relevant folder can be deleted independently

[aa]

The HTML pages saved from the Internet are saved with a folder containing
files used by that page. When I delete the folder from Windows Explorer, the
associated html file also get deleted.
How do I set Windows Explorer so that an html file and relevant folder can
be deleted independently?

 

[George Hester]

Well even if you could it would make the html obsolete. There is only one time in which deleting that folder
will not effect the html and that is when it is empty. In that case you can open the html with Notepad | Edit |
Select all | Copy. Then File | New | Edit | Paste. Then save it whereever you'd like it as mine_now.html.
Make sure you change the As type to *.* All files.

This is not a property of Windows Explorer it is a property of Internet Explorer as seen in Windows
Explorer. You might try deleting either one in the command prompt and see what happens.

 

[aa]

Thanks, Gearge.
I do save a lot of html pages for reference and in most cases I am after
text info and do not need all that irrelevang graphics, stylesheets and
Javascript, which clogges my folders. Removing these indeed will male the
page look not exactly as the authors meant, but still quite good for my
purpose.

Even if I empty the associated folder, it get deleted together with the html
file.
However I remember seeing somewhere an option allowing dis-engage an html
file and the associated folder.
But I cannot remember where did I see it. Perhaps somewhere in Internet
Explorer?



Well even if you could it would make the html obsolete. There is only one
time in which deleting that folder
will not effect the html and that is when it is empty. In that case you can
open the html with Notepad | Edit |
Select all | Copy. Then File | New | Edit | Paste. Then save it whereever
you'd like it as mine_now.html.
Make sure you change the As type to *.* All files.

This is not a property of Windows Explorer it is a property of Internet
Explorer as seen in Windows
Explorer. You might try deleting either one in the command prompt and see
what happens.

 

[George Hester]

Couldn't you save the web page as a mht file? It's called a web archive. In that case you'll get the page almost exactly as you see it. Another option is to save as a pdf if you have that software.

Somehow you have to get rid of the links in the html file to the folder.

 

[Gary Smith]

The HTML pages saved from the Internet are saved with a folder containing
files used by that page. When I delete the folder from Windows Explorer, the
associated html file also get deleted.
How do I set Windows Explorer so that an html file and relevant folder can
be deleted independently?

There is a registry setting that controls this: valuename
NoFileFolderConnection under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. If
it doesn't exist, create a new value of type REG_BINARY. Set to value to
1 to handle to file and folder separate; 0 to connect them. TweakUI can
be used to make this change -- it's an option on the Explorer tab -- and
other registry tweaker programs probably also have the capability.

 

[Luigi M Bianchi]

You can always use Mozilla. It allows saving a complete page, say
example.html, with all the associated files in the example_files, a
subdirectory of the directory in which you saved example.html. Mozilla
also offers the option of saving the page as text, or as html (without
the associated files).

/luigi

Well even if you could it would make the html obsolete. There is only
one time in which deleting that folder will not effect the html and
that is when it is empty. In that case you can open the html with
Notepad | Edit | Select all | Copy. Then File | New | Edit | Paste.
Then save it whereever you'd like it as mine_now.html. Make sure you
change the As type to *.* All files.

This is not a property of Windows Explorer it is a property of
Internet Explorer as seen in Windows Explorer. You might try deleting
either one in the command prompt and see what happens.

--
Luigi M Bianchi
Science and Technology Studies
Room 2048 TEL Building
York University, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J-1P3
phone: +1 (416) 736-2100 x-30104 fax: +1 (416) 736-5188
mail: lbianchi at yorku dot ca http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/sts/

 

[danjr]

You can always use Mozilla. It allows saving a complete page, say

example.html, with all the associated files in the example_files, a
subdirectory of the directory in which you saved example.html. Mozilla
also offers the option of saving the page as text, or as html (without
the associated files).

WOW! (not) So does Internet Explorer.

Save As > Complete Web Page, Web Archive, Web Page HTML only, or Text File.

 

[aa]

Thanks, erverybody. sorted out