Thanks, @Jeremy : this makes the plugin useful to me, in that i can drag in
a set of images from my desktop, and get a new tiddler for each one, with a
navigable URL in format "/Users/walt/Desktop/imagename.jpg" -providing that
i've configured the plugin to "Use absolute paths..."
Of those two config options, i chose "Use absolute paths for non-descendent
attachments
<#%24%3A%2Fconfig%2FExternalAttachments%2FUseAbsoluteForNonDescendents>"
because
presumably the other option for DESCENDENT attachments is for images i want
to reside inside the ./wiki/files folder -correct?
i'm also confused by some options that appear in the dialog box that
appears when i drag-in a set of images for import. In the image the
selection widget that appears (twice: once above and once below the list of
images), beside the two buttons to either "Import" or "Cancel", there is a
"Preview" pulldown menu, with the following options:
- Diff
- Diff (Fields)
- Fields
- Text
- Text (Raw)
The last is the default option, it works as i expect; have also tried the
"Text" (w/o Raw) option, and it delivers the same result. I don't know
what the other 3 options are for...
And i am still a bit mystified in general by the issue of where image (and
other binary) files are stored, and where those file paths are stored in
TW. The images that i load using this External Attachments plugin as
described above reveal a path like [img[imagename.jpg]] -as though they
were stored in a subdirectory (i.e. ./files or ./images typically), tho
they are not... And then i have other tiddlers i created some other time
not using this widget, that have image refs like {{imagename.jpg}} -a
couple of which are in fact stored in my ./wiki/files folder, and others of
which are not. So where are they, i wonder? I'm guessing i probably
embedded those images using the image tool in WSYWIG toolbar that
accompanies the default content type in the tiddler edit form (can't
remember now), but how can i find out where such image files are actually
stored?
/walt
On Sunday, January 3, 2021 at 9:49:08 AM UTC [email protected] wrote:
> However: Instead of the new tiddler being created with a clickable URL-
> like "file:///Users/walterludwick/Downloads/5.jpg" in this case -what
> appears on the saved tiddler is a broken image icon, and when i open the
> edit panel on that tiddler, i see that the "_canonical_uri" for that file
> is "../../../../../Downloads/5.jpg".
>
>
> The external-attachments plugin creates relative paths by default. This
> makes it easier to move a wiki and its images to a new location without
> having to adjust the paths.
>
> You can switch to absolute paths using the settings in the plugin listing
> in control panel (see below).
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jeremy
>
>
>
> Is this the way it's supposed to work? Is there some way i can canonically
> replace all those dots&slashes before the /Downloads/5.jpg, to create a
> default directory location for this plugin to use, so that it will always
> display a clickable link to the local file on each new tiddler it creates?
>
> /walt
>
>
>
> On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 6:30:35 PM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi Walt
>>
>> Are you dragging the image from Finder, or another web site? Perhaps you
>> could post a screenshot of the list of tiddlers?
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Jeremy
>>
>> --
>> Jeremy Ruston
>> [email protected]
>> https://jermolene.com
>>
>> On 2 Jan 2021, at 18:00, ludwa6 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Correct, @Jeremy : If you mean by "main window" the one that launches on
>> startup, which displays the several wikis i am managing with TiddlyDesktop,
>> that's not the one...
>>
>>
>> But rather: in the window that holds the wiki i am currently managing, if
>> i drag an image to that window, a green bar shows up across top of the
>> window (much as it did when i dragged in the yellow pill for Stroll
>> upgrade), and then i get this screen full of tiddlers it asks if i want to
>> update (! strange, when it's just a single small .jpg file i've tried to
>> import). Still, i have gone ahead and approved the update, but it makes no
>> diff: no new tiddler or image, AFAICT.
>>
>> I'm running TiddlyDesktop 0.0.13, with "External Attachments" 5.1.22
>> installed, on macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.6.
>>
>> Yours, Walt
>>
>> On Saturday, January 2, 2021 at 5:42:59 PM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 1 Jan 2021, at 14:38, ludwa6 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Was excited to learn from @MarkS. about "External Attachments" plugin
>>> for TiddlyDesktop, since that is my UI for TW5, but couldn't get it working
>>> right: i drag an image to TiddlyDesktop, and it lights up the green import
>>> bar atop the window, but then it offers to import scads of unrelated
>>> tiddlers... And then there is in the end no new tiddler, and no evidence of
>>> the image i tried to import.
>>>
>>>
>>> That’s very strange. What OS are you running? When you say “drag an
>>> image to TiddlyDesktop” you are dragging the image into a window containing
>>> your wiki, and not into the TiddlyDesktop main window?
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>>
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>
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