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Hi,
When one bookmarks, highlights, and comments on a web page with Diigo, does the persist in Diigo even if the owner of the original page deletes it or otherwise makes it inaccessible? This is very important when capturing newspaper articles since many papers make their current daily online available to the general public but limit access to back issues. If Diigo does not capture the page, having an option to do so, even if it's on the local hard drive, would be very useful.
Hi swampy,
Yes, all these data you mentioned persist, i.e. they will still be available even if the original web page has been deleted and is now inaccessible. That is one of the big advantages/features of Diigo. This is also why you can perform whole-text searches in your Diigo archive, it is all saved in Diigo's cache/database.
See here:
http://www.diigo.com/help/bookmark/1
["Archive your bookmarked pages to insure they are always available as originally seen, i.e. never have to worry about link rot again (currently only html pages are archived)."]
http://www.diigo.com/help/learn_more/3/
["Your bookmarked pages are archived to insure they are always available as originally seen."]
Just note the few restrictions about non-html content.
I've found Diigo's cache to be lacking, unfortunately. My highlights are accessible, but when clicking on 'cached' Diigo often can't pull up a cached version of the page. I simultaneously bookmark to Furl mainly for this reason.
ollitolli wrote:
> Hi swampy,
>
> Yes, all these data you mentioned persist, i.e. they will still be available even if the original web page has been deleted and is now inaccessible. That is one of the big advantages/features of Diigo. This is also why you can perform whole-text searches in your Diigo archive, it is all saved in Diigo's cache/database.
>
> See here:
>
> http://www.diigo.com/help/book mark/1
> ["Archive your bookmarked pages to insure they are always available as originally seen, i.e. never have to worry about link rot again (currently only html pages are archived)."]
>
> http://www.diigo.com/help/lear n_more/3/
> ["Your bookmarked pages are archived to insure they are always available as originally seen."]
>
> Just note the few restrictions about non-html content.
Hi davido,
yes, it's true that sometimes Diigo doesn't cache pages properly. I noticed that too but it happens rarely. By clicking the tag "cache" in the Diigo forum, you can find a couple of threads discussing this issue.
Oliver S.
davido 
Marsh Feldman