@Luke
Thank you for your reply.
When you say "get the entire thing shared..." does that mean to have it uploaded to dropbox (or bittorent, gmail google cloud, etc) as thoughtfully mentioned by various members to me, first before you will consider to put onto qb64.org (officially)?
I am finalising (for myself) on the format of the file names for the archive files - it makes it a lot easier for me to manage the files. At present about 99% of my files are on the one usb stick - it may take considerable time to sort out (with Windows 10) on the remaining 1%.
I do not have a "credit rating" (equivalent) with any resource sharing site (eg dropbox) and I think I should be polite and tell those sites upfront of my archive (10,000 files total size 10 GB estimated).
I would prefer to have individual files to upload (rather than zipping them) - the advantage is that everyone would have access to them very much quicker, and my priority would be to service any specific requests where possible (eg Steve was my first "customer"). Disadvantage of this approach includes a hap-hazard uploading (totally illogical) but my file naming protocol would allow easy sorting.
There are a number of different file formats (for the contents of the files themselves) I am investigating. At the moment those I am considering include:-
.webarchive (you can ask Steve for his opinion on this based on his original request)
.png (screenshot of the emulated webpage - lends itself to quick "slide-show" possibility)
.txt (a "cheap and nasty" extraction of somewhat useable text from the .webarchive)
.??? ( format that PDS 7.1 BSAVE generates - might be handy for use in a QB64 program)
Some examples for you are :-
[A_Beginner's_Help-01___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].PNG
[A_Beginner's_Help-01___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive
[A_Beginner's_Help-01-C_Y_THIS_NO_WORKING___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive
[A_Beginner's_Help-52___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].PNG
[A_Beginner's_Help-52___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive
[A_Beginner's_Help-52-T_an_ip_address___http፡⁄⁄www.[abandoned, outdated and now likely malicious qb64 dot net website - don’t go there]⁄forum⁄Beginners's␣Help].webarchive
I am also considering to try to insert that ...index.php?topic=#####.# stuff also into the file name if I can correctly extract it from the files - to allow easier (I hope) search in the archives.
I like the speed of the QB64.org search engine to find say _Beginner's_Help-52-T_ it leaves Windows 10 for dead on my laptop.
Richard