just made a copy of the yWRiter Comprehensive Help File from archive.org

[KM Lafferty]

I just got the 2020 capture of the yWriter wiki to load on archive.org. I'm sure others have tried this and thought it unviable as it keeps refreshing every couple of seconds and can't be read - but I was able to stop the page reloading and now i have copied the contents of the Comprehensive Help File into a .docx file. It's 68 pages, and apart from needing some formatting it looks intact

I then clicked on the FAQ but I would have to follow the above procedure for each individual section of the FAQ to get that captured and it's nearly my bedtime. I also don't know how much the FAQ differs from the Comprehensive Help File, if at all.

Anyway, the 2020 version of the Comprehensive Help File now exists on my computer. Anyone have any suggestions what I might do with it to make it accessible? I don't have a file-sharing service.

KM

[Simon Haynes]

Hi - thanks for that amazing effort!  If you like you can send me the Docx and I can put that and a PDF version on the yWriter website.

I didn't think archive.org could store google pages, so that's great news.

I'll take a look at the FAQ pages and see if I can get those too

Cheers

Simon

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[Simon Haynes]

Okay, if you use noscript and turn off javascript on archive.org, the page no longer keeps refreshing.

I'll see if I can do a wget and retrieve it.

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 22:27, KM Lafferty <ceta...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Simon Haynes]

Okay, I'm retrieving the FAQ from a 2024 archive now, so please don't spend any time trying to grab those files.

Thanks for putting me on the right track with this, I know someone who will be pretty happy about it because she did a lot of work editing the FAQ for me over the past 2 years and it was all seemingly lost.

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 22:27, KM Lafferty <ceta...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[KM Lafferty]

Just got online to see if there were any suggestions and see you are onto this. Great that you were able to access the 2024 pages and saves me doing more work.  I can always shoot you that file if something goes wrong at your end.

I guess the idea to look into this had been percolating in my mind because it has come up a few times recently on the group and I've been thinking it is such a pity all that info had been lost - and not just for newbies, because there's still things such as 'presets' that I don't understand about yWriter even after using it for about 20 years.

KM

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[Simon Haynes]

Thanks, appreciate it.  It's going to be tricky parsing the HTML to extract the important stuff, but I've written many apps to do that sort of thing before. The important things are that 1) anyone can go and look at the site on archive.org, and 2) it's been saved, at least in some form.

Once I've extracted the data I'll put the whole lot on the spacejock.com.au website.  The only reason I used google sites in the first place was so that trusted people could make their own edits.

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