Web Archive ?

[Robert4]

Hello,

Running Mojave.

I "had" a bunch of items on my desktop that Ihad copied and saved to the desktop.
All opened just fine until recently.

The icons are there, with the pix of the compass that Safari apparently uses.
Also, right underneath it says "ARCHIVE".

It seems now that all of these have been converted (automatically ?) to something called Web Archive.

None of these previously saved documents, etc. will open anymore. Just a totally blank page opens.

What is Web Archive ?
How can I get back what I have originally saved ?

Are they (still) saved, somewhere, via this web archive ?

Where is web archive on my Mac ?

I know nothing about web archive, as I have never run into it before.

Does it have something to do with iCloud, which caused me all sorts of problems in the past,
and that I, hopefully, totally disabled a few weeks ago ?

If someone could explain this for me, would be most appreciative.

And how to get items back so they open normally ?

Will blame it all on old age now, but am really stumped with this.

Thanks, truly appreciate, as always, the help,
Bob

 

[Fishrrman]

This may not help, but I'll offer the suggestion anyway on the chance that it might.

Download the "iCab" browser:

iCab - Downloads

iCab seems to be handy insofar as opening "web archives" goes.
Give it a try...

 

[Robert4]

Hi,

Will try.

Thanks for suggestion.

Regards,
Bob