you can use this to import the file into your tiddlywiki itself. http://filetotid.tiddlyspot.com/
On Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 1:35:07 PM UTC-4, Robin wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've just started playing with TW5 after using TW2 for a long time, and I > love the updated system. However, I've run into trouble when trying to > reference large binary files like videos. In TW2, I would just create a > local file link, like [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]], > and clicking that link would open up the file in a new tab in Firefox. TW5 > allows embedding of images, which works spectacularly well, but I haven't > had much luck with videos. I can drag the video file into the wiki, but all > I get is a tiddler containing the binary data rendered as text, which is > not very helpful. I also can't make relative file links anymore, as a link > such as [[really_cool_video|./files/really_cool_video.avi]] just creates > a new tiddler called "./files/really_cool_video.avi". I could make an > absolute file link, but that's not particularly portable since, for > example, my home directory is /home/username on one machine and > /Users/username on another. > > Am I missing a best practice for this sort of thing, or is this problem > not well-solved by TW5 yet? > > Thanks, > Robin > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c6b4313e-3f39-41c2-8411-25831af8dbdf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
