Newbie - Need Help Options

[Bill Rigsby]

I am having some difficulties with linking files after burning a CD.

Once I burn a CD, and click a link, it is looking to my desktop where the original files were stored for the file and I get the error....
Your file couldn’t be accessed​
It may have been moved, edited, or deleted.


ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND

How do I or what do I edit this to say, to tell it to look to the CD for the linked file?....




Obviously this needs to be done on the master file, not editing on the CD.
This is probably very simple, but I am stumped, sorry!





Bill

[Darin McGrew]

How do I or what do I edit this to say, to tell it to look to the CD for the linked file?....

Your link is using the full URL. Use a relative URL instead. See the FAQ entry:
https://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#relative-url

[Bill Rigsby]

How do I or what do I edit this to say, to tell it to look to the CD for the linked file?....

Your link is using the full URL. Use a relative URL instead. See the FAQ entry:
https://htmlhelp.com/faq/html/basics.html#relative-url

All examples appear to be for a web site (www.......)

I think I am in over my head, just lost!

[Bill Rigsby]

I thought I had it figured out, edited it to this.....

and it worked.....


.....but HTML decides to arbitrarily change it to this, specifying a drive letter!

So, will not work in either other computer because the DVD drive is NOT D:


UUUGGHH!

This post has been edited by Bill Rigsby: Oct 25 2023, 05:59 PM

[pandy]

HTML doesn't, cannot, change anything. Possibly your editor did. What program do you use? And what did you do between the first screen cap and the second? Just saved the file?

How you had it in the first screen cap is correct, provided what you want the link to do is to lead to a specific point in the same document.

[Bill Rigsby]

HTML doesn't, cannot, change anything. Possibly your editor did. What program do you use? And what did you do between the first screen cap and the second? Just saved the file?

How you had it in the first screen cap is correct, provided what you want the link to do is to lead to a specific point in the same document.

My editor? Well that's simply Chrome!
After poking around on the internet to find out how to edit HTML that's what I found.
Everything worked really well to get rid of all the typographical errors and reformat some of the text to my liking,
but now this debacle.

Just a bit of a backstory, grew up in Silicon Valley, from 68 to 98, we all heard of HTTP HTML FTP all of those acronyms but we were box builders we built systems.
Worked at Zilog from 78 to 98, we were the makers of the Z80 which at the time, after we were purchased from Exxon Information Systems, our CEO (Edgar Sack) said
we could have been the chosen product of IBM, but we chose not to be chosen, the hardware guys were just laughing in the background, the 8080 was obviously a
superior product, and the rest, as they say is history.
You want a computer, I'll build you a computer, this is my first dabbling in any kind of 'coding' I guess it is?

So please forgive my ignorance.

So yes, basically I just started deleting stuff, trial and error until I found something that worked.
Hit control S, and saved it as the existing Index file.

I was quite happy when everything worked, I saved the files as an ISO image and then burned them to another CD,
and it worked, until I put it in second and third computer at the house which did not have the CD drive as D: and back to square one.

And so here we are!
As they say!

These are the files in use.....



Bill

[pandy]

OK. I don't have Chrome so I didn't even know it had an editor.

Try this instead. Open the file in a plain text editor and edit that line. If you are on Windows Notepad will do.