I lost a ton of work today as well. I didn't explicitly update tiddlyfox, and I didn't catch that I had to take an extra step to re-enable something that was previously working. Very frustrated right now!
On Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 12:59:40 PM UTC-4, webcorerad wrote: > > Ohhh :( I’ve just lost a day of work because of this as well. It didn’t > save anything, the computer freeze and I’ve had to restart it. When I > opened TiddlyWiki again all work was gone. I didn’t have clicked on the > TiddlyFox icon and the green button to enable the save again. > The icon change is so subtle I didn’t noted it… > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Apologies, I hadn’t appreciated the impact of the change; I have to rely >> on feedback from beta testers to smooth out the rough edges of things. (The >> new version of TiddlyFox has been available as a beta for about 3 months). >> >> This happened to me as well and I don't see anyway for it to happen >> unless Firefox automatically updated the add-ins. I count automatic updates >> that change how the add-in works without notification as being a big >> mistake. >> >> >> The automatic update was a surprise to me, too. I submitted the add-on >> for approval on 21st February and had almost given up hope that it would be >> approved before the release of a version of Firefox that broke TiddlyFox. >> >> I seem to be constantly telling the thing that I want to enable saving >> for the wiki even though I haven't knowingly updated anything. Does >> clearing the cache, cookies, etc, also reset whether TiddlyFox has saving >> enabled? If so, is there some way to change that behaviour? >> >> >> TiddlyFox settings are stored using the Firefox extension standard >> storage API for preference storage. I guess that it probably does get >> cleared if you nuke things sufficiently powerfully; hard to see a way to >> avoid that other than to store preferences somewhere non-standard, which >> seems like extra work, and makes the Mozilla review process more complex. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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/0e48df3f-fd49-407b-b16c-f424aeb94603%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0e48df3f-fd49-407b-b16c-f424aeb94603%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> 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/1880F939-AF28-4318-9DFC-485A51F48FD7%40gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1880F939-AF28-4318-9DFC-485A51F48FD7%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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/a4cad6c0-89e0-47e1-b490-18b1ea092cd3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
