Perhaps this is a subject that belongs in the "Off Topic" section but since it involves a "tool" I thought I'd try my question here. I've been attempting to download a browseable copy of the board for several days using Teleport Pro and have run into a problem that I can't solve even after I rtfm, or the help file in this case.

The problem is that the vBulletin program contains thousands and thousands of files and I am having trouble getting it to restrict its downloading to those that are relevant. If I understand the program, those seem to be the "showthread", "printthread", "forumdisplay", and "index" files which would give me the listing for the various forums, the threads in vBulletin format and the text printable form of the thread. The problem is that Teleport does not seem to like my attempts to limit the thousands of files of types: member; newpost; calendar; usercp; editpost; register; sendtofriend; announcement; privatemessage; etc. most of which are not accessable except at the adminstrative level and of no use to me anyway for purposes of having the actual threads to review offline.

Another problem is that after downloading 5-8 thousand files Teleport seems to stop saving the files to disk and I find nothing limiting the number of files it can save after the program is registered.

If anyone can help me with Teleport or tell me how to download the threads from this board or suggest another download program that they believe works more effectively than Teleport Pro, I would appreciate the advise.