On Wednesday, March 25, 2020 at 4:27:22 AM UTC+1, Mark S. wrote: > > If I set the download directory to C:\, then I can set the backup > directory to /users/mark/temp/twbackups ... the file is saved and the > backup works! > > But if I set the download directory to D:\, and I set the backup directory > to /temp/twbackups ... the file is saved, but the backup appears in a > sub-directory of the target file, ignoring the specified backup path. This > may be related to D: being a network drive, EXCEPT for the next weird thing. >
That's an interesting setup, I didn't think of and therefore didn't test it. ... So I will have to have a closer look, what's going on. If I set the download directory to D:\, and I set the backup directory to > ../../temp/twbackups ... the file is saved, AND the backup appears in the > designated directory. > Can you hit the F12 key and open the dev-console and view the Console tab. There's probably the error message form the last post. > So, if it was a permissions thing, I wouldn't expect that to work at all. > The problem is, giving a path like ../../twbackups will save to the wrong > place as soon as I go down one more directory level. > Yea, that's expected, since the ../../xx goes up 2 levels. But there may be only 1 level left. So may be an error state. > My thought was that it would be possible to have one window set up to save > using the C: directory, and another windows (FF profile) set up to work > with the D: directory. But the backup for the D: directory is uncooperative. > I'll have to test this. ... Is D:\ a windows network directory, or is it a "samba mount" to a unix-like system. > Thanks! > Thx for the feedback! ... I think we have gone past our "communication and naming problems" ;) -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/7846e9ee-0a64-4602-bc0a-f5b217441eb6%40googlegroups.com.
