Upgrade StorageSuggestion: Store all files for each webpage snapshot as one archive file (e.g. .tar)
Problem:
Every time Zotero takes a snapshot from a webpage, hundreds of files (images, js, css, etc) are added to the Zotero data directory. This makes taking backups from the Zotero data directory, moving it around, or syncing it with cloud services like Google or Dropbox more difficult.
Suggested Solution:
Add the option to store web snapshots as one archive file. When later Zotero is opening a snapshot, the archive file can be extracted in a temp directory just before opening.
Any archiving format would work. It doesn't need to (and maybe for the sake of performance shouldn't) do any compression, so tar, tar+gzip, zip, etc all should be fine. Perhaps the option with the best library support is the best option.
Assessment of difficulty:
An archiving library is required so that Zotero can archive/extract the snapshot files. As long as such library is available (a quick search shows that there are some open source options such as jszip, zip.js, js-untar, tar-js), the rest should not be very difficult. Although I am not really familiar with Zotero code so I may be missing some obvious things. Please let me know if that is the case.
I would be happy to hear any feedback or advice.
Every time Zotero takes a snapshot from a webpage, hundreds of files (images, js, css, etc) are added to the Zotero data directory. This makes taking backups from the Zotero data directory, moving it around, or syncing it with cloud services like Google or Dropbox more difficult.
Suggested Solution:
Add the option to store web snapshots as one archive file. When later Zotero is opening a snapshot, the archive file can be extracted in a temp directory just before opening.
Any archiving format would work. It doesn't need to (and maybe for the sake of performance shouldn't) do any compression, so tar, tar+gzip, zip, etc all should be fine. Perhaps the option with the best library support is the best option.
Assessment of difficulty:
An archiving library is required so that Zotero can archive/extract the snapshot files. As long as such library is available (a quick search shows that there are some open source options such as jszip, zip.js, js-untar, tar-js), the rest should not be very difficult. Although I am not really familiar with Zotero code so I may be missing some obvious things. Please let me know if that is the case.
I would be happy to hear any feedback or advice.
wh_fzj_ste, unfortunately, as wikipedia says,
"Mozilla Firefox requires an extension to be installed to read and write MHT files. Two extensions are freely available, Mozilla Archive Format and UnMHT, but both will be discontinued in the future. UnMHT's author has no plans to support Electrolysis. MAF does not yet support Electrolysis."