Thanks for this Jeremy, sorry to not thank you immediately but I've been on Holiday.
On Friday, 2 August 2013 17:15:47 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Simon > > You're not doing anything wrong, the behaviour you're seeing is the > fallback HTML5-compatible saver. It allows TW5 to save changes on almost > any browser, without using non-standard features, but with the disadvantage > that rather than saving the file back to it's original location, instead it > downloads the new copy of the file. As you've found, the end result is that > you accumulate many *.html files in your downloads folder. Sometimes that > may be what you want - each file acts as an intermediate backup. However, > it's usually more convenient to switch Chrome's settings so that it always > prompts for the location of downloaded files. With that option selected, > clicking the "save" button in TW5 presents the file save dialogue, which > makes it easy to select the existing file and then hit return to overwrite > it. > > Anyhow, all these shenanigans are far from convenient for regular usage; > depending on the browser there are a number of other options: > > * With Firefox (incuding Firefox for Android) you can use the TiddlyFox > extension ( > https://github.com/TiddlyWiki/TiddlyFox/raw/master/tiddlyfox.xpi) to > allow you to save changes directly > > * On the iPad/iPhone, use the TWEdit app to view and edit TiddlyWiki5 > documents > > * Run TiddlyWiki5 under node.js as a local web server, so that you can use > any browser > > * I hope to create a Chrome extension similar to TiddlyFox. Chrome doesn't > let extensions directly access the file system, instead it will be confined > to loading and saving files from a sandbox stored within Chrome. > > So, the idea is to provide a solid, generic fallback for saving that will > work in most circumstances, and a bunch of platform specific plugins to > make saving slicker where we can. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Simon Harper > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> I've just moved to TiddlyWiki5 and I'm really liking it. I'm using >> Chromium 28.0.1500.71 (209842) on mac 10.6.8. However, even using the >> wiki functionality, saving, saves the file as a separate new file in my >> downloads folder (as though I'm downloading). I'm presuming this is setting >> issue my side - any advice or points on how to correct this - ie what am I >> doing wrong? >> >> Cheers >> Si >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] <javascript:> > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
