Thanks so much for the detailed explanations, Eric. The only problem I have with extracting tiddlers from the mangled file: the sidebar is inactive, I cannot search for or click to tabs that would display my tiddlers. I'll try international characters!
Lynn On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 6:27:45 PM UTC-5, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 29, 2015 at 1:17:25 PM UTC-8, Lynn C. Chiu wrote: >> >> Today, instead of saving my TiddlyWiki5 with the "save" button from my >> Chrome browser, I went ctrl-S to overwrite the .html local file. This broke >> my wiki. When I opened it up again, the sidebar functions are clickable but >> not functionable. There seems to be an overlay of two wikis: my home view >> (with the default tiddlers) and those that were open when the file was last >> saved. I can close and edit the former but not the latter. I have attached >> a picture that shows the "overlay" on the upper right. >> > ... >> (1) Is using the "save" or "download" button the best ways to save the >> wiki? >> > > As you've learned, you must not use the browser's 'save' command, as it > does doesn't save the right stuff. Because the TW page display is > dynamically generated, the browser's "page" includes both the TWCore and > tiddler data that was loaded from the original file... PLUS the rendered > output from processing that data. When you save the file with the > browser's command, it saves the whole thing...TWCore runtime, tiddler data, > and rendered output. When you then reload the file, it still runs the > TWCore to render the tiddler data... but it also has a static 'snapshot' of > the HTML that had been displayed when you saved the file. The results is, > as you've noted, is that the document seems to render twice, with one > rendering being interactive, the other static (and rendered on top of each > other, due to application of CSS rules). > > (2) Is it possible to easily retrieve imported notes from, say, the >> source code, of my wiki? >> > > NO WORRIES! Your data should still be intact within the damaged TW5 file. > To confirm this, I used ctrl-S (browser save) with one of my own TW5 files > to reproduce the problem. Then I dragged that 'broken' TW5 file onto an > empty TW5.... and it can still find and IMPORT all the tiddlers from that > file into a fresh, unmangled TW5. You can then save that file locally. > > Note: one possible area I was not able to confirm: do international > (multi-byte) characters survive this recovery process intact? You should > try using some multi-byte characters in your content and see if the > browser's save stored them correctly. > > enjoy, > -e > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios > Inside TiddlyWiki: The Missing Manuals > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/11619023-e1d7-45c2-b93e-1d3f98a50847%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
