[Maf] Re: MAF/Scrapbook Problem

[Angus Veitch]

I have browsed the contents of one of the maff files, and found that it 
did indeed lack the files that it should be displaying.  The html source 
was full of references to files in my local scrapbook directory.  I 
should perhaps clarify here that I exported multiple pages to html with 
Scrapbook, and in doing so I created a document with a 'navigation' 
frame.  I think the frameset html is fine, but the accompanying html 
(stored within the archive in a subdirectory called "index_files") 
contains references such as:

<a 
href="file:///D:/Mozilla%20Firefox/Scrapbook/data/20050208023731/index.html" 
target="main">

I think there is one of these references for each of the pages that I 
saved in the archive.  If it would help, I can send one of the maff 
files in question.

Under the directory "\index_files\index_data" there are a number of ico 
files, a png file and the css file.  So maf is definitely saving some 
files -- but not some of the htmls, it seems.

Angus.

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>> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:40:06 +1000
>> From: Angus Veitch <s368121 at student.uq.edu.au>
>> Subject: [Maf] Does MAF Archive Local Files??
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>> Hi, this is my first post to this list, and I haven't read through 
>> the archives yet, so apologies if my issue has been raised before.
>>
>> I find maf to be an indispensable part of Firefox.  Without it I 
>> would still be using M$ Internet Explorer.  Any extension for 
>> handling offline content is especially important because the offline 
>> cache in Ff still does not work properly.  Apart from the occasional 
>> page that maf won't save, I have had very few problems with the maf 
>> extension.  However, I have found one 'quirk' in it that worries me.  
>> I discovered it while using maf in tandem with the Scrapbook 
>> extension, which is another useful method of capturing content and 
>> saving it locally.  I hope that what I describe here makes sense to 
>> people unfamiliar with Scrapbook.
>>
>> I captured some pages with the Scrapbook extension and then used 
>> Scrapbook to export the captured pages to html.  I then opened the 
>> exported html and saved it as a maff file, assuming that all the 
>> related data for the page would be saved within the archive.  I then 
>> and proceeded to delete the original scrapbook files, thinking that 
>> they had all been duplicated in the archive (a bit hasty of me, I 
>> admit).  When I then tried to open the maff file, Firefox gave me a 
>> message saying that 'index.html' in the scrapbook directory was not 
>> available.  In other words, it turned out that all of the relevant 
>> data had not been saved in the archive after all, as the archived 
>> files still contained links to other files on the hard drive (which I 
>> had now deleted).  As a result, I had to download the files again.  
>> (I tried to recover the files, but strangely enough, two 'undelete' 
>> programs that I tried failed to find them.)
>>
>> I don't know if this result is due to some peculiarity of Scrapbook, 
>> or of my combined use of the two extensions, or whether this is just 
>> the way maf works.  Either way, the main point I want to make is that 
>> all files associated with an archived web page should be contained 
>> within the archive file, even if the files being archived are local 
>> files (i.e. already on the hard drive).  An archive file should be 
>> completely self-contained.
>>
>> Can someone explain to me what has happened here?  Did I do something 
>> illogical at some point?  Am I misunderstanding the way that maf is 
>> supposed to work?  Or is this a bug that I should report (or that has 
>> already been reported)?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Angus.
>
>
> I tried to reproduce your problem but here maff extension worked well 
> for me.
> I have an Apache server running in my PC, configured to be accessed 
> though domain foo.
> In my server root folder I placed a single html page containing an 
> inline image sourced from another external domain.
> I captured the page with scrapbook, then used maff to make an archive.
> Set Firefox to work offline, opened the maff file and enjoyed the image.
> You could opened your maff archive file with winzip or scrollkeeper 
> (Linux) to check that all the page media was saved with the html file.
> I don't know what operating system you are using, I am using Debian 
> Linux. It uses other kind of filesystem, may be that's the point.
> Cheers,
> Pablo