Snapshot not properly saved? (NYT)

jmce
Report ID: 1559242446

Operating system: Debian/GNU Linux 5.0.5 (Etch)
Firefox version (Iceweasel in Debian): 3.0.6

- Saved an entry for http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/03/us/03fbi.html
- When trying to view the saved snapshot, I get a box with this message:
The attached file could not be found.
It may have been moved or deleted outside of Zotero.
This happens both with the original attachment and with one of the same page later saved 'manually'.

The "Locate" button does show me a folder with many files. There is only one HTML file there (03fbi_1.html), but this is just the content of an iframe (small box to the right of the article title, suggesting signing up for daily email messages). Thus it seems that a main file, with the main HTML content, is somehow not created.
  • jmce
    Correction: there is in fact another HTML file in the created folder, but it's another small secondary one (adx_click.html).
  • jmce
    It definitely seems that somehow Zotero's attachment saving procedure is missing the main HTML file in this case (maybe only that one, but not sure):
    Saved a copy of the NYT page elsewhere with the browser's "Save page as", copied the resulting 03fbi.html to the Zotero attachment directory for the relevant item, and "View Snapshot" stopped showing the error message for that item.
  • jmce
    Obviously the copy mentioned in my previous message is not appropriate as a snapshot, since it doesn't try to use local content copies; and now also found problems saving some NYT articles as "complete web pages" from the browser (at least some missing CSS, it seems). Unfortunately the NYT "print version" is currently also unusable for Zotero snapshots (I prefer those to avoid indexing unrelated stuff and to avoid storing 'junk').
  • fcheslack
    I confirmed this on my laptop, but snapshots work fine on my desktop.
    It also happens trying to take a snapshot on a nytimes article (but not on nytimes main page where no translator is triggered anyway).

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