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Submitted by David_H on 2016/12/11 21:47

I had a past thread where I asked some questions about this and I hate asking the same questions all over again, but I just spent 15 minutes look for the thread to no avail (as mentioned in another thread, the forum could use some better search options).

I am starting to clip more and more HTML pages into IQ. Would it be possible a include a page, perhaps with recommended best practices, in the online manual that explains the conditions for when HTML gets stored in the database versus linked to as a file? I find it confusing because it seems inconsistent. As an example I just clipped a large article with many pictures, I thought the clipper put the HTML in the SNDB folder and linked to it. Yet when I look at most items I've clipped, they are nowhere to be found there, so they must be being put in the database?

I would like to keep the database as small as possible and want to make sure I'm not setting up a future scenario where my database slows to a crawl because I've clipped 10 GB of info.

Thanks!

Edit: I eventually found the thread I started before here. Which simply reinforces my confusion as that thread seems to support that clipped items should be creating a root item and separate associated folder (if necessary) in the SNDB folder. Yet when I clip an item using the Firefox clipper it's usually putting it in the database.

Is it because I'm highlighting content on the page I'm clipping from, and that causes it to go directly to the database?

Comments

DavidH, do you use the MHT option when you clip from the web? I tend to use that for clippings, and keep HTML for things in IQ I write myself (because I'd rather edit in IQ than open to Word).. Saying this only because MHT bypasses the question of what goes where and in that way keeps things simpler.

I also have wondered about storage locations, though more from the point of view of relative paths and IQ knowing where things are whatever device they're on.

DavidF.

I created this book page, hopefully, it will clarify it

Content Types

HTH !

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

EDIT// overlapped with your post Pierre -- will go read that and edit this post accordingly, thanks.

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It seems a bit arbitrary to me:

some (few) html clippings get saved as html files + folders in the folder associated with your IQbase file
there's no sign of most html clippings

Note: with the latter you need an internet connection to see the images.

I cant figure out why some get saved as separate html files.

If you want to be able to access images clipped from the net, and are worried they will be removed online, or you might not have an internet connection, you should save them as MHT. They will be stored in the folder associated with your IQbase file

Thanks Pierre, David & Tom! So it looks like all I need to do is save to MHT which I see is a better format for archiving anyhow. Much appreciated.

MHT cannot be edited directly in the HTML pane, do keep that in mind. I use embedding unless there is important images, etc that I want to make sure I keep. I also use MHT when I want the copy to be as true to the original as possible

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer

Wow, I see that if I save to an MHT file and then delete the item from IQ, IQ also deletes the MHT file. That's even better! Correct me if I'm wrong, but HTML files hang around forever unless they are manually deleted.

Good to know, as I sometimes do highlight sections, add a few notes etc. Would it be difficult to add basic text formatting capability to the clipper?

No, it is on "the list" ...

Pierre_Admin

IQ Designer