Like you, I rotate which methods I use for saving. Sometimes because one method is superior to another, and sometimes just because.
The thing that bothers me about tiddlydesktop, and it isn't even an actual error, is that it appears in the icon tray just as a plain square icon. It just feels *unofficial* like that. Thanks! On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 5:39:22 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote: > > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/eaf28c8a-88e1-4116-9838-cb856bd214a5%40googlegroups.com.
