Save htm file - rename later, corrupts display

B

- Bobb -

I did a Google search but couldn't get "right keywords" to find
appropriate answer. If not a quick answer, maybe just a URL/pointer. I run
into this occasionally and curious why it happens / how to correct:
Background - setup:
While online I save a webpage to my Pc as htm, so it saves 2 files
"XYZ.htm" file and a " XYZ_files ".
Later on, (like today) I notice the god-awfully long filename and want to
change it.
Here's the filename:
" HP Pavilion dv2000-dv6000-dv9000 and Compaq Presario v3000-v6000 Series
Notebook PCs - HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement.htm"
and if I open it first - it looks fine - page is displayed just as it was
when I was at HP website - all margins/page layout etc.

Here's my question:
If I try to rename I get a windows " You might corrupt file.... we
recommend that you open the file and do a " Save As". If I do that - the
layout gets messed up - fonts change etc. SO I figure , OK - there's
SOMETHING it that file when I saved it originally that sees a difference
so let me just go ahead and rename both files. So I rename

HP Pavilion dv2000-dv6000-dv9000 and Compaq Presario v3000-v6000 Series
Notebook PCs - HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement.htm
to
HP Pavilion dv6000 Series Warranty Enhancement.htm
and rename
HP Pavilion dv2000-dv6000-dv9000 and Compaq Presario v3000-v6000 Series
Notebook PCs - HP Limited Warranty Service Enhancement_files
to
HP Pavilion dv6000 Series Warranty Enhancement_files.

I open THAT and - messed up - just as the other is.
I rename back to original and - looks good again.
1. Why does it get messed up ? , and
2. other than revisiting a webpage and saving again with new name, how to
avoid distorting the layout/fonts etc.
3. Or cannot avoid it because "something" is imbedded into file ?

Thanks.

PS: reason for wanting to rename has to do with "browsing that folder".
I find that later on, when I try to download a file and do a " Save As"
and point to that folder, in the folder browser popup window where I'm
choosing to save the file, the spacing between file columns is " as wide
as the widest filename", so if I have a LOT of files in there, AND if the
spacing between each column is a wide as the 'FILENAME ABOVE', then I
might have to scroll a long time to the right to find something that I
want to overwrite or to see if a name is in use. ( That's how I just
noticed that "something in the " My Documents" folder has a very long
filename". )
 
L

Leonard Grey

XYZ.htm and XYZ_files are linked together. If you rename XYZ files the
links will be broken. If you delete XYZ files the content referenced by
XYZ.htm will be missing and XYZ.htm will look strange.
 
P

PA Bear [MS MVP]

Patient (demonstrating): "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!"
Doctor: "Don't do that."

Don't do that.
 

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