thanks for you view. I appreciate it. J.
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 03:21:56 UTC+2, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > Who are you talking to? And why the need for swearing, bold, caps and > hyperbole? > > The community here has always been happy to try and help anyone who has > problems with their wikis, whatever the cause of the issue, and it would be > a shame if anyone were dissuaded from seeking assistance. > > People have different levels of skill and have different understanding and > expectations of how the software will behave. > > Of course it's easy to back up one's work. It's also easy to run the node > server and obviate the need for any in-browser saving mechanism, but some > people still seem to prefer the single-file configuration, despite the > increasing difficulty of supporting the Tiddlyfox extension. > > IMO you should try to make the title of any threads that you create > relevant to the topic - "Why you should backup your work" for example. > > You should also aim to provide useful information for people. For example, > you could describe exactly how you have set up your backup mechanism > including details of which OS and tools you are using, where the backups > are created and what failure-mode you are protecting against. > > Personally, I have yet to lose data from Tiddlywiki other than through my > own mistakes and I have used it daily for ~5 years. I keep off-site copies > of my wikis by storing them in iCloud (I use a mac) and I have time-machine > enabled on a disk attached to my airport, but I've never needed to use it. > > If I'm working on some kind of tweek to TW itself that I know might lead > to me breaking the wiki (changing the UI, for example, or working with big > lists) I will always do the technical work in a copy of the wiki or by > running the server edition. > > Regards, > Richard > -- 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/58e28338-a056-49dc-a40e-90372a319323%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
