# Problems with Using Pinegrow on Archived sites
**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350
**Category:** Bug Reports
**Created:** [January 27, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350 "2026-01-27T13:59:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/1 "2026-01-27T13:59:20Z")
Hi there,
Im trying to recover some sites from
> **[Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music &...](http://archive.org)**
and After saving the pages
with respect to going through at reconstructing the prior lost sites of a recently deceased friend,
Im coming across an issue where PG isnt recognising anything on the pages when moving around the pages.
So clicking on anything on the page, doesnt trigger the highlighting of the code in the editor, or any other recognition of anything on the page.
there IS one error called out in PG at the initial load.
One I quite often see, in sites about
_A span shouldnt contain a div_
or such like,
but the whole usability within PG breaks.
if I open the same page within Brave browser, developer tools, then I can navigate everything.
in the attached video, this is how it opens, with developer tools, I then switch to PG 9.01 and
nothing works as expected.
I was about to attach the video and… I cant see the usual icons above!
Ok Ill post this then hopefully edit it and they will be there
That was wierd.
ok the icons/menu options are now visible above.
so here is the video.
Ok i cant .
max of 10MB
great UX so far with this report.
here is the url instead then.
ok …. this process is starting to suck…
So I cant upload the video or the URL.
my!
What a useful bug report this is turning into.
ok to be resumed I guess…
when something actually works
WHAT!!?
I cant even email support!
what the heck?
I attached the compressed project folder for you to check.
ok, if someone could get back to me….ive things to do and I cant get this done, so IM going to do the other things instead.
TTFN
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/2 "2026-01-27T23:22:10Z")
ok, no word back.
@Emmanuel , is something up with your email system, where we cant attach projects for you to examine?
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/3 "2026-01-29T11:50:51Z")
So any update/support yet?
how to provide/send info to pinegrow?
cheers
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### Author:  [@Emmanuel](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Emmanuel)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/4 "2026-01-30T07:32:49Z")
Hello,
Just a quick reminder that’s always useful for support requests:
> **[Some tips to optimize your support request - Contact Us | Pinegrow Web Editor](https://pinegrow.com/contact-us/#some-tips-to-optimize-your-support-request)**
>
> Ran into problems? Have a suggestion? We would love to hear from you!
Instead of trying to send the project to us, please create a shared link (Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer, etc.) and send that link to our support address. 😛
Thanks!!
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/5 "2026-01-30T11:15:15Z")
Thanks for that, but
Response took too long, and I used other software tools to resolve the issue instead, as I needed to get it done.
3 days, needed it done sorry. would have been nice to use PG for it, but couldnt.
Will do the whole file sharing uploading, thing later if I have time. I currently use none of the services you quote.
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/6 "2026-01-30T11:50:03Z")
Here is the link.
> **[home](https://web.archive.org/web/20160614030741/http://secretacademy.com/)**
just open as URL and you can check it yourselves,see the issue, saves me all the hassle.
🙂
you will have this one issue flagged with PG.
Then it fails to render the tree, link code to cursor position etc etc
carry on 🙂 TTFN
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### Author:  [@matjaz](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/matjaz)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/7 "2026-01-30T12:45:48Z")
Looks like [archive.com](http://archive.com) server sends headers after the body was sent causing remote url fetch in Pinagrow to fail. Opening urls from [Archive.org](http://Archive.org) is a very atypical use case for Pinegrow so will leave it as it is.
The easiest workaround is to save the complete HTML page locally - with browser’s Save as - and then open that in Pinegrow.
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/8 "2026-01-30T18:30:24Z")
Hi @matjaz ,
Yeah thats what I did, saved page locally with save as.
BUT.
the results are the exactly the same, try it
O:-)
Theres no point in me going through the hoops to get that same page to you, downloading, compressing, commenting etc, when you can just save it yourself, the same as me and hey presto!
you have a bug ! \<3
Im guessing that the archive site is doing something wierd but even the saved page, BORKS PG so that it cant overcome the issue and function correctly. weird as PG just gives that one error, but then just…doesnt work.
Thanks for having a quick look, but I was actually working on the saved page, not the url.
OK ttfn, let me know if youd like me to do anything else, other than just b quiet
😃
PS\<
I user the [archive.org](http://archive.org) site quite a bit for recovering old sites for people who have stuffed things, let domain names expire/ which then get cyber squat.
it would be great to use PG on the saved sites and have it work as a lot of the older sites use pretty crap code, irrespective of the [archive.org](http://archive.org)’s additional wobbly worm, coding wierdness, so I have my work cut out anyway 🙂
I often use sitesucker to download the sites too… I it localises the directory navigation structure… so you can navigate it locally offline.
actually I should check and see if I
_saved page_
or
_downloaded and localised_ with Sitesucker.
great tool, been using it for years, along with archive for org for sites which upset people have stuffed/let lapse.
> **[SiteSucker for macOS](https://ricks-apps.com/osx/sitesucker/index.html)**
I was actually hoping to use PG Snapshots for this role,
> **[Pinegrow Snapshots](https://pinegrow.com/snapshots)**
>
> Take static HTML snapshots of dynamic web applications and use them for collaboration.
but alas, that didnt seem to be part of its role /use case scenario.
And for some reason , If I use PG **Open from URL** -which I thought would have been PERFECT….
…for some reason… i cant save the resources….. which it populates the page view with…
I mean they are THERE!!!… but if I work on the page and SAVE IT.
it just saves the changes Ive made… unless Im totatlly misunderstanging something/not selecting some option.
If it SAVED page… with media etc, I could drop some other tools from the chain.
ok cheers anyway.
TTFN
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### Author:  [@Cary](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Cary)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/9 "2026-02-05T01:55:55Z")
I had to turn off JS using the button in the top bar to interact with the page.
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### Author:  [@schpengle](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/schpengle)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/10 "2026-02-05T12:40:47Z")
HI there, thanks @Cary , yeah that does work in order to get the code view to tally with the cursor position, but some of the site, unsurprisingly seems to break.
i.e. the top banner doesnt appear after _turning off_ the [archive.org](http://archive.org) tool banner in front of it, and the image layout is a bit bonkers, with things/images juxtapositioned over each other etc.
So while turning off JS does work, in order to get the code editor to align with cursor position on the visual page view, this page view layout has gone all awry and is no longer a true representation of the page layout.
So thanks for the heads up there, it is indeed a quick check for why its not working, I didnt think to try that, as I was hacking the _additional_ code away from the [Archive.org](http://Archive.org)’s potrayal of the saved site instead.
So getting rid of the their banner tool and a LOAD of their other stuff etc, and then it also worked again , but I’d resolved to chrome Dev tools in order to figure this stuff out as it worked on the archived page in order to see what was where, whereas PG broke and couldn’t correlate cursor to code to page view.
I will just check the JS button in PG for a quick look from now on too. thanks.
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### Author:  [@Zahra](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Zahra)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2026, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/problems-with-using-pinegrow-on-archived-sites/11350/11 "2026-02-18T06:42:55Z")
I also Faced this problem for my two sites [😔](https://systemswestinc.com/) [😔](https://agri-systems.com/). Finally fixed now