On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 6:55:45 PM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: > > I was having trouble with one specific file. file-backups wanted to revert > to a "save-as" dialog. >
Please check your browser option: "Always ask you where to save files" .. It should be _not_ checked. > I finally got it to save by opening from file explorer. This gave the fb > warning that there were two versions open. Then I could use the 2nd version > and save. I'm thinking there was some background conflict with backups, but > dunno. There is some issue, sometimes, which I know is incredibly vague. > This should only happen, if you open a file from eg: C:\Documents and want to save it back to c:\Documents Since web-extensions can only directly save to C:\Downloads folder *_and_ subfolders*, the dialogue saves it there. After the save, a green banner opens, that tells you, you need to open the "newly" saved TW from the browser downloads folder. This is the location where file-backups can save to. On another issue, what path can you give fb to tell it to save in an > absolute location? > That's not possible (because of browser security concerns) and it's not needed. - Open the OS file explorer and move your TW into the "*downloads*" folder or a *subdirectory* - Double click - to open it - The save will automatically save it back to the subdirectory, if it was opened from there. > Every path I try gives me the red outline. > The "red" dialogue is opened, if a TW file from the same location and name, is opened in 2 or more browser tabs. If 2 tabs edit the same file, this can lead to data loss. That's why there is the red banner. > There are many reasons a person might not want to save in the same > directory as the original file. > *If you want to get a download dialogue everytime* you save the wiki, you shouldn't use addOns at all. They are all designed to overwrite the existing file. That's the only reason, why we created them. *You can use the browser default save mechanism. * - Open browser "options" settings - scroll down to "Always ask you where to save files" - activate it And the browser will start to ask you, where you want to save the file, everytime you change something. I personally think this is annoying if the TW "autosave" option is active. > For one thing, it means the "real" backup to a separate drive will be > longer. > Please have a closer look at the file-backups homepage <https://pmario.github.io/file-backups/> and see, how the "Tower of Hanoi" backup mechanism works. There is a maximum number of backup files, which will be created + rarely created "out of order" backups, if a new file name is identified. I personally think, it gives us a nice balance between the number of backup files and the "time-span" those backups can cover. Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup_rotation_scheme#Tower_of_Hanoi The working drive may have less capacity than the backup drive. > That's true but most OS systems have a possibility to transparently "compress" subdirectories on the OS level. Which uses about 350kByte for empty.html and 1.9MByte for a tiddlywik.com like TW. > There is more overhead when running dropbox or syncthing. > That's true but you don't need to sync the backup directory for dropbox, since it brings its own versioning system for the "original" file. There is no need to backup the backups. This will unnecessarily increase the used disk-space which has to be paid. As far as I know, syncthing only syncs files (or even segments of files) that have been changed, which doesn't happen too often for the eg. D, E, F .. backups of file-backups. So only parts of the "original" and the backups actually go over the wire. Again - Have a look how the Tower of Hanoi mechanism works. have fun! mario -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e0a86ea9-430d-401a-9a68-cebf65de6900%40googlegroups.com.
