So, if someone had a website and they wanted people to download all the files for

[Baitball Blogger]

insurance reasons, would it be easy to do if there were hundreds of records all over the website? Is there a program that can deconstruct the downloadable docs? Like pdf and docs?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. Unless I'm missing something...

...it would be easier for the person with access (ftp permission implied) to just copy the individual files.

What do you mean by deconstruct?

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Let's say I put a website together that has hundreds of documents scattered

throughout the pages that make the website. Can someone come in with a special program to identify all the documents for easy download? I want people without computer background to be able to do it. If it's too tedious a task, they probably won't bother.

[ManiacJoe]

3. Having a special program to do it would indicate that the user is computer savvy.

If you want it to be easy for the non-savvy, you need to package all the files in one place so that no hunting is required.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Sadly, you are correct.

That's another day added, hunting down those files.

[Occulus]

10. There are programs (and even FireFox extensions, I think) that will do what the OP is asking

I don't use them because it's far, far too easy to accidentally tell them to download a whole website, links, images, documents, and all.

Depending on the site, that's a lot to download in a batch. But yes, there are programs that will do it all in a one-click operation.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. This is a little complicated.

The files making up a website can be place in a single folder (directory) on the serving pc or in multiple folders.

You can install any good ftp client (just google "ftp client&quot to make this easier and faster. Your host will usually grant ftp access (you get a user name, password and sometimes account number) to those having content control. Some hosts have friendly tools for you to use to make pages and build or edit your pages.

If you're lucky all the files will be in the one folder and the ftp app can just copy them all, similar to how you would copy files from your hard drive to a floppy or USB key using Windows Explorer.

Help should be available from your host if you have issues.

Best of luck.

[ChromeFoundry]

6. Are you looking for a spider crawled archive of a website?

It will only get the files that are actually linked from the site pages, but I have used utilities like this in the past and work fairly easily. If you look around there are probably freeware versions out on Github, SourceForge or CodePlex.

http://www.inspyder.com/products/Web2Disk/Default.aspx

[Baitball Blogger]

7. I'm just going to have to hope that some of the DUers that will answer my plea to

"steal my data" will know how to do it.

[ChromeFoundry]

8. I think this is what you want...

http://www.httrack.com/

You can copy the entire website to your hard drive. Then just ZIP the root folder and send it to whomever wants it. It will have all the pages, images and files on the site in a single file.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Wow! Thanks!

[HopeHoops]

11. Is this a porn site?

[Baitball Blogger]

12. If only I had the time for such prurient interests.

No. Not even then. I think my first boyfriend was right. I'm asexual.