Re: Can't rename Web files in IE6?

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I suppose I can't understand why you don't use the short file name in the
first place.

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"Michael Butler" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Sandi Hardmeier - MVP" <sandi_hardmeier@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> What are these pages you are trying to back up? Pages that you have
>> saved using file, save page as, or your IE cache?
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>> Sandi - Microsoft MVP since 1999
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>> "Michael Butler" <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> When I go to back-up files to CD, if my htm or mht Web files
>>> names are too long, my CD writer will always inform me that they are an
>>> illegal name
>>> lengths and then will request that I either accept the files will not be
>>> saved
>>> to disc or can I rename them to shorter lengths! It seems that this
>>> renaming
>>> has to be done through IE6, the problem is, is that no matter what I
>>> seem to
>>> do I can't get IE6 to save these Web files again under a different,
>>> shorter
>>> name and store them in either my current folder or any other?
>
>>> My PC is a 'Packard Bell Xtreme, AMD Athlon, 2.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM and 120
>>> GB
>>> Hard drive, about 20% used. I'm running 'Windows' XP Home edition with
>>> SP2
>>> and my CD/DVD re-writer is a 'RecordNow Dx' product, many thanks for
>>> your
>>> thoughts and as I'm only a confident amateur PC user I apologise now, if
>>> I've
>>> missed something obvious... Michael.
>
> Thank you for your thoughts, Sandi Hardmeier, what I do in IE6 is click
> 'File' then 'SaveAs.' this will then produce a copy of the web page I'm
> currently viewing, in a number of formats to a folder of my choice. Once
> it's there I can, at any time, off line, re-open it in IE6, but now I
> can't then re-save it again in IE6, in a shorter file name any ware on my
> Hard Drive? This is what my CD writer, when backing up, wishes me to do!
> But IE6 and or 'Windows XP SP2' won't let me? I hope that this is a little
> clearer than mud, many thanks. Michael
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