Hi Gerald Terrible story - it is however a common problem when saving files to usb and unmounting it manually..
This utility seems to work on/with all filetypes: http://youtu.be/L8fXMDtLhOQ As Birthe said - tiddlyspot saves backups - so does store.php and dropbox. Good luck! Cheers Måns Mårtensson Den torsdag den 29. maj 2014 00.47.04 UTC+2 skrev Birthe C: > > Hi Gerald Strickland > > A true horror story. The change in file size you saw from 3 mb to 80 kb! I > have been tricked by delated writing to usb harddrive myself. Everything > looked fine, no warning. But later I saw a lot of unreadable files and > corrupted files. I saved or thought I saved the files from one computer and > tried to read the files on another. I am not able to explain why or how, > but I tried putting the drive on the computer the files were saved from and > was able to read at least some of them. > Have you tried reading your usb from your home computer? > > It is very bitter...but I think you'll have to go back to your latest > backup...... > > Danielo I totally agreee TW5 should include backup option. I love using > Tiddlyspot for a lot of reasons...backups are one of them. > > > Birthe > > > > El miércoles, 28 de mayo de 2014 23:30:09 UTC+2, Gerald Strickland >> escribió: >>> >>> - I was using either 5.0.10 or 5.0.11 >>> - TW5 lives on a USB stick >>> - Encrypted my TW5 >>> - I use TiddlyFox >>> - I use it on Firefox (latest build) >>> >>> Last time I used it was last night at home on my Windows 7 desktop, hit >>> the check mark to stop editing my last entry, it then saves via TiddlyFox >>> and I eject my USB drive. I came to work this morning, plugged in my USB, >>> enter my TW5 password and it doesn't want to open after several attempts. I >>> browse to my TW5 html file and notice that my file size is no longer 3MB.. >>> instead it is 80KB. This leads me to believe I lost everything. >>> >>> What are my options? >>> >>> - I have an old backup prior to upgrading to 5.0.10 or 5.0.11, but that >>> was 35 days ago. And I've added so much information to my TW5 since then. >>> >>> Biggest WTF moment right here. I can't help but think of all the >>> information I inputted for the past 35 days. >>> >> -- 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/d/optout.
