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How to copy contents of entire thread?

Posted by fallsfall on October 23, 2003, at 7:06:56

Is there a way to copy (or save or somehow easily collect) the text from all of the messages in a thread? Ideally I would like to go to the top of the thread and push a button that would take all of the contents of each message in the thread (plus who posted and when) and stick it in my copy buffer, or save it on my harddrive.

Currently, the only way I know to do this is to open each message in the thread, select and copy. If it is a long thread that is pretty tedious.

Dr. Bob? You seem to do this sometimes when you redirect a post - you concatenate (Thank you for spell check!!) several posts into one post for the new board, instead of moving each post separately. Is there a trick you can share with me?

Thanks!

Re: How to copy contents of entire thread?

Posted by Dr. Bob on October 23, 2003, at 10:15:25

In reply to How to copy contents of entire thread?, posted by fallsfall on October 23, 2003, at 7:06:56

> Is there a way to copy ... the text from all of the messages in a thread?
>
> Currently, the only way I know to do this is to open each message in the thread, select and copy. If it is a long thread that is pretty tedious.

Sorry, but that's the only way. At least right now. I do see how that might be a nice feature, and I don't think it would be too difficult to implement, and I might need to do that for another project, but one thing to keep in mind is that some threads are really really *really* long...

> You seem to do this sometimes when you redirect a post - you concatenate (Thank you for spell check!!) several posts into one post for the new board, instead of moving each post separately. Is there a trick you can share with me?

I wish there were, redirecting can in fact be pretty tedious...

Bob

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