James Dunn

Inspired by: San Souci

To be added to Yahoo 360 Tips & Tricks

As you have noticed, Yahoo 360 continues to be having increased amounts of glitches and delays. There is a real risk that at some point individual blogs may accidentally be damaged and/or deleted.

You have no doubt spent a great deal of time and unique moments of inspiration in the building of your blog pages. All of it can be lost in less time than a blink of your eye.

Currently, 360 does not provide a mechanism to backup your blog pages onto your computer or CD/DVD.

The following provides a simple method to backup your blog pages:

1. Open your blog in the first page of your Full Post View
2. Open MicroSoft Word to a "new" document
3. With your mouse, highlight all five of the blog pages showing in 360
4. Press Ctrl-C
5. Go to Word and click on the last blank line
6. Press Ctrl-V
7. This will paste those 5 blog pages into Word
8. Press "Enter" to put a couple of blank lines after the last blog entry
9. Go back to 360 and click "Next" to display the next 5 blog pages
10. Go to Step 3 and repeat the process until all of your blog pages have been entered into your Word document.
11. Save your Word document to a safe location.

Don't forget to backup the new pages you create in the future.

This procedure may, or may not, save "other than text" items you have put in your blog pages. Pictures and URL links were preserved for my backup. For my information, I was able to edit the text in Word and repost it to my 360 blog page.

An alternative if you don't have Microsoft Word:

If you have trouble saving your blog pages in Word, you might alternatively save your pages using the Internet Explorer built in tool:

1. Open your "My Blog" menu
2. On Internet Explorer, click on "File" in the top menu bar
   1. If you don't see the menu bar with File, Edit, View, ... then right-click in any empty space of the tool bar area and select "Menu Bar"
3. Then click on "File"
4. Click on "Save As"
5. Draw down the pulldown menu "Save as type" and select "Webpage, html only"
6. Then enter a name for your file in "Filename"
7. Then finish by clicking "Save"
8. Repeat the above on the next set of blog pages.

This will save your blog pages, but I'm not sure how editable the saved versions will be. The page I saved as a test was visually identical when you open it with Internet Explorer, but it is graphically skew if you open this file with Microsoft Word.

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