You may Export Projects to another directory or file by clicking the Export button on the Ribbon - Home tab. This feature allows copying of downloaded files from one or several Projects.

When exporting loaded sites Portable Offline Browser will change links in HTML, Flash or Java script files according to the new filenames. You may use the following settings to fine-tune the Export process:

The list on the left allows you to copy exported files to the specified directory or to compress them to a ZIP, MHT archive, EXE viewer, compressed HTML Help (.CHM) file or upload to an FTP server.

MHT archives use no compression, but they keep all exported sites in a single file. Besides, they could be directly browsed using MS Internet Explorer.

HTML Help has benefits of MHT files plus, it occupies much less disk space because of the compression.

However both MHT and HTML Help files can be browsed only on systems with MS Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher installed.

If you select MS Internet Explorer cache, Portable Offline Browser will send exported files to the Internet Explorer cache and they will be accessible in "Work offline" mode.

Do not create subdirectories - place all files in the single directory. Files with same names will be renamed to avoid filename conflicts.

If you check Make Autorun CD option, Portable Offline Browser will also create autorun.inf and oe_open.exe files. All three files, when placed on the root CD directory, make the CD auto running - if you place the disk into the CD-ROM drive, the contents.htm file will be opened automatically in the browser.

Export recently loaded files only - copy only the files that were downloaded or updated during the last download session only. If some previously downloaded files were not updated, they will be skipped. Uncheck the box to export all files that belong to the Project.

Filenames format - you can choose one of three possible formats:

Keep as - is copy files with their original filenames, which is fine if you want to export a Project to another directory.

8+3 - MS-DOS compatible this option is useful when exporting Projects to Windows 3.11, floppy disks, Novell network drives or other older file systems. Portable Offline Browser will change all filenames so that they will use no more than 8 symbols for the filename part and 3 symbols for the extension.

Joliet - CD-R 64 symbols great for publishing on CD-ROM disks, because they require that every filename consist of no more than 64 symbols.

Use standard extensions for files with known file types - many Web sites contain standard files with non-standard extensions. For example, HTML files normally use .htm or .html extensions. However there are many cases when CGI-BIN scripts, ASP pages, Lotus Domino sites and many others return HTML formatted contents under non-standard filenames. Extensions could be completely different, such as .shtml, .nsf, or .asp. Many files may contain no extension at all.

Normal Web browsers determine the content type of a file using its extension. Thus a file with a non-standard extension will be used as unknown, and when offline browsing without running Portable Offline Browser, browsers may simply offer to save a file to disk instead of displaying it.

To overcome this problem, Portable Offline Browser will add standard extensions like .htm, .gif, .jpg, .js and others to the copied files depending on their actual type.

Disable popup links changes all popups to open in the same browser window. It is recommended to check this setting when you export to HTML Help.

When a Project is exported, Portable Offline Browser will create a file, named contents.htm in the directory with exported sites. This file contains links to the exported Projects.

Preserve online links - if any downloaded HTML file has links pointing online, they will be kept as-is and not translated offline.

Add original URL to HTML files - add online URL of every exported Web page as a comment to the page contents. Besides, it helps to solve compatibility problems when browsing exported files under Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later.

Faster Export improves file parsing speed during the export. However some links may work improperly, especially when you use Prevent directories from overloading (in the Options dialog). It also skips resolving moved links and links in .ram files.

Open file when export completes automatically starts the exported file when you export to a directory, ZIP, MHT, EXE or CHM file.

FTP upload

It requires you to specify the server. You may also type the directory to upload to: ftp://ftp.site.com/path/. If the server port is not 21, specify it this way: ftp://ftp.site.com:8021/

Username/password might be also required.

FTP upload will export to a local directory on your hard disk. It uses other export settings, like filenames format, standard extensions, etc. When export completes, it starts an upload utility that sends the files in the exported directory to the server. You may also want to delete exported files from the local directory when upload completes. This doesn't influence the remote server.

It is also possible to export Projects automatically once they are downloaded.

Troubleshooting

If you experience problems with the export, such as not files were exported as you expected, please check the Project Map - whether it lists all of the files or not. Export works only with the files listed in the Project Map.

If the Map is incomplete or missing and downloaded Project files are on your disk, please select the Project and press Ctrl + F5 on your keyboard. This will start downloading the Project in the "Do not load existing files mode". Portable Offline Browser will go through all downloaded files and add them to the Project Map. If there are some missing files, they will be downloaded.