JC Archives

[Blue Train]

I'm here! A big thanks to Ron, Scott, and others for setting this up.

We may not have the Jazz Corner archive but we have each other and .... sob sob sob

As of yesterday, I WAS able to find the JC archive (at least much of it, anyway) via Google search


http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/

This is the index.

You can still find threads and save them if you know the title, or certain things that went on in the threads. It's more cumbersome and time consuming, but doable. Just had to walk Walto through it the last couple of days.

[Ron Thorne]

Sorry, BT, but that URL doesn't take me to an archive. It defaults straight to the JazzCorner Home Page. At least, it does on Firefox, Opera and Chrome.

[Blue Train]

Sorry, BT, but that URL doesn't take me to an archive. It defaults straight to the JazzCorner Home Page. At least, it does on Firefox, Opera and Chrome.

Not my link Ron. I was just qouting Steve T's post and just pointing out that even now you can still save individual threads.

[Blue Train]

This should work and go farther back then 2003.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=us



P.S. When I was talking about it being more cumbersome and time consuming....I meant from the archive of the newer board. From the older board it's pretty simple since entire threads are in one page.

[Blue Train]

Sorry for the multiple posts in a row. Just think it will be easier for people.


If that webcache link I posted doesn't work.


Just google Jazzcorner Archive. The first thing that should be listed is "Jazzcorner's Speakeasy Archive - Jazzcorner"

Right under that in green will be "speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/index.php". Next to which will be a green downward arrow. Click on that and then click on the cached button.


To save any thread it's simple. No matter how many posts in the thread it's all going to be in one page.

Right click on page.
Click on "Save as"
File Name - Your going to have to put the threads name manually.
Save as type box - "Wepage, Html Only"

Rinse & Repeat

[Ron Thorne]

This should work and go farther back then 2003.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=us



P.S. When I was talking about it being more cumbersome and time consuming....I meant from the archive of the newer board. From the older board it's pretty simple since entire threads are in one page.

Sorry, I missed the double quote in that post. That's one feature I don't care for, frankly.

I'm interested in looking at the archives from more recent times (post 2003) first, to save some entire threads, if possible.

Let's move this discussion to a new thread, OK? I'll set one up in The Alley.

[Ron Thorne]

Let's share tips and suggestions for finding and saving threads, posts, etc. from Jazz Corner.

The archives from 2003 back are pretty straightforward to locate and look at, inasmuch as they were "formally" archived at the time the new software was introduced.

[Blue Train]

How to find and save the pre 2003 & post stuff from the old board from the switch to the new software.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=us


If that webcache link I posted doesn't work in the future.


Just google Jazzcorner Archive. The first thing that should be listed is "Jazzcorner's Speakeasy Archive - Jazzcorner"

Right under that in green will be "speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/speakeasyarchive/index.php". Next to which will be a green downward arrow. Click on that and then click on the cached button.


To save any thread it's simple. No matter how many posts in the thread it's all going to be in one page.

Right click on the page.
Click on "Save as"
File Name box - Your going to have to put in the threads name manually.
Save as type box - "Wepage, Html Only"

Rinse & Repeat

[Blue Train]

For the post 2003 from the newer board it's more cumbersome, time consuming, and really a pain the ass depending on the amount of pages involved for each thread.

First you're going to need the name of the thread to find it. You're also going to have to "save as" each page individually.


So once you find the thread.

Do the exact same as I mentioned above on how to use the caching through the green arrow.

Save page 1 of the thread using the method mentioned already above. I don't think you will need to manually put in the name for each page saved.

To save the rest of the pages. You're going to have to search for each individual page and go through the entire process for each page that you did for page 1. In Walto's case it was Frou-Frou Jazzcorner page 2, Frou-Frou Jazzcorner page 3....and so on.


You can then combine individual pdfs into one single pdf. Not knowing which version of adobe anyone has, or if they have ever done it...here is an idea of how it's done.

http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/faq/mergepdfs/mergepdfs.html

Adobe includes a video.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/m ... files.html

[Blue Train]

Ron:

Since I condensed the original posts into the last two posts...it's will be less confusing if you deleted the original posts from the Who is I thread and just have this start from your post asking about tips and suggestions.

[Ron Thorne]

I'm still not seeing how you're getting to the newer board, post 2003.

I know what thread titles I want to save, but I would like it if someone could point me to a valid link to see those newer forums. I know how to Google, but that's not enough to dig through this newer database, which is now shut down.

[Blue Train]

I'm still not seeing how you're getting to the newer board, post 2003.

I know what thread titles I want to save, but I would like it if someone could point me to a valid link to see those newer forums. I know how to Google, but that's not enough to dig through this newer database, which is now shut down.

As an example: The thread Walto asked me about.

I just put into google Frou-Frou Jazzcorner

You then do what I said about caching and then you can save that page.


http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... imes-Furry)-Friends+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us


But it won't work if you try clicking to another page.

However searching under Frou-Frou Jazzcorner page 2


http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... imes-Furry)-Friends/page2+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

and you will have to do it with ever page of whatever thread you're interested in.

[Blue Train]

Page 1 of Your Only in Alaska! thread. To find it I used Only in Alaska Ron Thorne page 1

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... clnk&gl=us

[Ron Thorne]

OK, now I see what you're saying. You're right, it's a painfully slow, page-by-page capture. But it works.

Thanks.

[Blue Train]

OK, now I see what you're saying. You're right, it's a painfully slow, page-by-page capture. But it works.

Thanks.

You're welcome, Ron.

[Blue Train]

If you haven't saved anything post 2003 that you wanted to save....start doing it.

I tried to hunt down my post about Pops' theory on Martini....and the thread is no longer cacheable. I tested a few other threads and the same thing.

[Ron Thorne]

I think it's already too late. I noticed the following prompt last week on the Wayback Machine, and have been unable to access anything today using previously workable methods.

Caches have disappeared.

I would love to learn about any successful retrieval method.


Page cannot be crawled or displayed
due to robots.txt.

See jazzcorner.com robots.txt page.
Learn more about robots.txt.
You may try the page on the live web

[Blue Train]

The robots.txt was changed to disallow. It's up to the individual search engines to agree to respect the request.

http://speakeasy.jazzcorner.com/robots.txt


I checked with Bing. Found some threads. Just do everything the same I as I explained before, but now use Bing instead of Google.