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Issue with saved Chat Log page

Hi, I saved a chat log ages ago, and I tested it back then as well, and it worked perfectly fine. However, when I attempt to open it now, I get this page: Another player in the game saved her version of the exact same page, and hers is still working just fine. The .htm file is 11MB, so I can't help but feel that all the information is still there. Does anyone have any ideas as to how I could get the chat log back?
I attempted to open the page in Microsoft Word and got the following error:
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Gid
Roll20 Team
Adam, what do you see if you open the file up in a raw text editor like Notepad or Wordpad? A Roll20 chatlog isn't just a direct text file dump from the chat tab. It includes CSS styling and images for the dice, avatars, and roll templates from the sheet. If you only saved the the HTML file and not a folder of other image objects that are references in the HTML file, a web browser is going to have a hard time displaying the chatlog correctly.
Hi Kristin, When I open it in Wordpad, I more or less see the code of that empty page. I believe this was due to an issue with my Dropbox - it wiped a folder, and I recovered the HTML file, but I believe I didn't recover the CSS and jquery files. THAT BEING SAID, I actually WAS able to recover them later. As you can see in the picture below, I believe these are the missing files. Do you have any idea as to how I would be able to reinsert them back into the HTML file?
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Gid
Roll20 Team
When I save a HTML file on Chrome, it creates an HTML file, but then also creates a folder that matches the file name of the HTML (without the extension). Everything that supports the HTML in content and resources is dumped into this folder. The linking in the HTML document is redirected to the content in that folder rather than what it was pointed to from the server. So if your HTML file was named "Game_Archive.HTML" then you would also have a folder called "Game_Archive" where all of your CSS, images, and jquery resources would sit in. Create a folder called "Archive I - Session 1 to 36" (copy and paste the filename of your html file to make sure you get an exact match). Then move everything you have in your screen EXCEPT that HTML file into that folder. Make sure the HTML is sitting outside the folder. Then see if you can view the HTML file correctly.
Does the folder with all the extra files have to be located anywhere in particular?
It still came up as blank. I use Cyberfox, a 64-bit branch of Firefox.
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Gid
Roll20 Team
The folder shouldn't need to be in any place in particular. The html file and its contents folder just need to be located in the same place in your file structure. If that doesn't work, the html file should have the log of what players and the GM have said buried in their still. Each comment from a user will be enclosed in its own div.
I have it set up like this. I have it on both my Dropbox and stored locally: Furthermore, two of my players saved the chatlogs as well, and theirs are 22MB each, give or take, so I think something might legitimately be missing somehow. They ALSO didn't send any folder through - only the HTML file. I think there might be SOME data still in there, as you can see below: That being said, as you can see below, it's clearly the wrong code, since it references the rolling script on the blank page:
I can't help with the problem at hand, but I can suggest this extension [for Chrome] SingleFile. Before replying to this message and at the point of Adam's post around 15hrs before my reply, the saved file for this page was around 3.16mb which saves the images and layout to a single file that can be used for review. This of course can be used on any webpage not just this forum thread, so a campaigns chat archive could be used. And since its a single file, simply having access to that file, is all you need to have. Sorry to hear about this current situation thou, it would be annoying as heck.
The odd thing is that I don't use Chrome, and as far as I'm aware, Firefox (or it's branch, Cyberfox) simply saves everything into a single file, much like (I assume) SingleFile would. There was no folder containing all the other requisite files, and I only noticed all of the other ones shown above (the CSS and jQuery files) after I recovered a folder from Dropbox online. It's like the chat HTML file was actually CHANGED upon recovery, and all the player's chat divs were wiped or removed and replaced.