I'm sorry about all that lost work. Man, that's frustrating! First think to check is whether there are any tiddlers which have names that start with Draft. If there are, open them and see if any of them contain the lost work.
Would you be able to give any details about what you were doing at the time? Did you leave it open in your browser overnight? (Probably not a problem, but could be a corner case that we need to check.) Were there other interesting pieces of information that we might be able to use that could point us toward any possible bug or situation we haven't thought of? There is a save button, which is a checkmark in a circle, which turns red if there are unsaved changes. I guess all the changes were saved? It should have warned you, though, if you try to close the window without all the changes being saved. In TiddlyWiki, when you click the settings gear icon, a tiddler comes up. One of the first things that it says there is Tiddlywiki Version. What is that version number? Also, what browser do you normally use to access it. Please understand, I can't access your computer, so if you could help me to know a few things I would be very grateful. The reason behind these questions is that I am trying to figure out if there is a certain platform or browser that we haven't accounted for and is causing TiddlyWiki to behave in unpredictable ways. Also, I don't know if this helps or not, but it is possible that some of your files are still in the data folder. That's the "current directory" folder or the one specified as the first command line argument. Again, not sure if that helps, but just wanted to mention it in case. Sorry for your trouble, hopefully something here helps. But if not, I wish you the best. God bless, -Arlen On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 6:02 AM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Bruno > > I’m sorry to hear of your experience; like most of us I know how frustrating > it is to lose your own work. > > That’s why tiddlywiki.com does go to some trouble to highlight the “First > rule of using TiddlyWiki”, to take cautious backups and guard against data > loss. As much as possible, we try to learn from feedback so that we can > engineer improvements to the product to reduce the likelihood of data loss. > But ultimately data security requires attention from the user; TiddlyWiki > gives enough power to shoot oneself in the foot very easily. > > Can you shed any light on what went wrong for you? It would be great to > understand any underlying issues so that we can attempt to address them. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > On 8 Dec 2016, at 10:53, Bruno Loff <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been using tiddlywiki for taking notes for my work for the last > couple of months. I was fascinated with the extensibility of it, and have > spent many hours customizing it to suit my purpose. > > But in this week I mysteriously lost my work two times while running > tiddlywiki on node. That's over fourteen hours of work that I now have to > redo, hopefully I'll remember everything. I'm pretty pissed off. > > If you don't pay attention to something as fundamental as "saving", your > whole software is standing on a shaky foundation. > > Instead of recommending the use of tiddlywiki for someone writing a novel > (god spare them), you should put a disclaimer in your webpage. > > I guess that as a piece of software, it just isn't reliable enough for > serious work. 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