FND said the following at 10/18/2008 09:16 AM :
>> the starting "/" is being ignored.
> 
> I'm afraid we'll need some details on this; OS, browser and TiddlyWiki 
> version, plugins etc.*
> 

OS: Kubuntu amd64 hardy, fully up-to-date
Browser: FF 3.0.3
Tiddlywiki version: I just downloaded it from www.tiddlywiki.com, so it's
whatever the current version is
Plugins: none

> Generally speaking, chances are that this is a browser-level security 
> restriction, allowing you to access only files/folders within the 
> current working directory.
> There is no reasonable way for TiddlyWiki to work around this, nor 
> should there be.

I guess you're right now that I think about it; but perhaps there should be
some kind of error message? The lack of such a message is (I think) what
caused me not to engage my brain and deduce that this would be a bad idea.

> However, your example suggests that you're on a *nix machine - in that 
> case, you could probably create a symlink from the respective TiddlyWiki 
> document's directory to the backups dir, using a relative path to access 
> the latter.

Right. Thanks muchly.

  Doc

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