Re: Cache fles not longer in htm format

["Peter Krefting" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

self <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> But the inability to continue to have my cache archived and indexed by  
> Copernic or Google is a real problem.

Well, in my opinion, if the indexing software relies on the file extension  
to identify the file format, then it is the indexing software that needs  
to be changed. An HTML file is an HTML file, no matter whether it has a  
".html" extension or not.

Also remember that if Opera receives the document compressed (HTTP  
supports sending compressed data), it will be stored compressed in the  
cache, something the indexing software also needs to take into account.

> Your suggestion that I "might want to try a cache visualiser tool"  
> misses the point, there is no human way to look through tens of  
> thousands of cache files by hand individually hoping to find what I am  
> looking for.

True.

But the cache index file is there, and it has had the same format since  
Opera 4.0. That means that the authors of the indexing software you are  
using have had eight years to implement support for reading the cache  
index file, and not having to rely on the actual naming of the files in  
the cache (I would assume that it already does that for the Internet  
Explorer cache).

With 9.50 you also have the option of using Opera's built-in search  
facility to do full-text search of all pages visited by Opera. It is  
triggered by entering text in the address field, or by opening the special  
page opera:historysearch. That only searches what you have seen in Opera,  
though.

> I hope that Opera reconsiders this disaster and returns to leaving the  
> file suffixs on.

I doubt that will happen. But you never know...

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