Mark, Perhaps you understand the following but for clarity.
Marios solution is one of the available ones, and takes a reduced dependencies approach buy working with the permissions that the browser gives to a tiddlywiki file. Your desire to customise and change folders is understandable but by its nature incompatible with such customisations. For example I do not use Marios worthy solution personally, because with my computer use, I must be able chose to where I download things. If you want to discuss other want to discuss other strategies just ask. I expect you are aware of the following; All from my Windows position; - Timimi - tw-receiver on php - TiddlyServer - TiddlyDesktop - Bob/Bobeexe - TWexe <https://ihm4u.github.io/twexe/> - Others Regards Tony On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 8:07:53 AM UTC+11, Mark S. wrote: > > Ok, keep in mind that I'm talking about setting the download directory to > a root directory, like C:\. > > On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 12:59:21 PM UTC-7, PMario wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Right -- in fact you can't set a download directory to C:\ without > changing this. So it has never been set to "Always ask..." in any of the > tests that I have mentioned. > > > 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. >> >> > I've not seen the green banner. Maybe it flashes by? > > >> 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. >> > > Ok, I just realized that I can use ../.. to back out of the current > directory. So that works. I don't need to send the backups to a different > physical drive. Just one single point where they're not part of the weekly > backup plan. > > >> >> 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. >> > > No, I'm not talking about the red dialogue. I'm talking about the download > path directory. It gets outlined with red when you try to put an absolute > directory in. But I see now that I can use ../.. to select some other > directory, so I think it's going to work. > > >> 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. >> >> > I wasn't talking about the original source file. I was talking about the > files in twbackups. I want them to save somewhere else. I don't want them > to save in the original files' directory or sub-directory because that will > cause more maintenance headaches. > > For instance, tiddlydesktop has a backup, and I just set it to send the > backups to a directory on a drive that has lots of free space. I don't have > to worry about remembering to delete the backup set before doing a physical > backup. > > >> 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. >> >> > I only know that syncthing takes a long time to run. I think it's because > it has to evaluate all those files and compare them with the other file > system. So the more files it has to compare, the longer the process takes. > > Thanks for your time. I think the problem with saving had something to do > with the backups, so if it happens again I'll just clean out the twbackups > directory for that file. > > Thanks! > > -- 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/d146a024-7fce-4fd4-8e75-d1447c92ed9d%40googlegroups.com.
