Hi Tony, Thanks for inputting. The thing is, between 12.30 pm and 5 pm, I am sure I saved a couple of times, and even if I saved a previous version, the time timestamp shows 12.30 pm, as if the local file wan not touched at all in this while. This is what I am finding spooky.
And you are right about timimi. I LOVED timimi plugin. In my old laptop I was using a previous version of it. This, my current laptop is a new one ( Acer Aspire 5) and I chose not to install an old version of timimi (and last I checked Timimi was not out for chrome yet) and therefore all this mess. But now I have installed Tiddlydrive plugin and it seems to be working well. I have to open my TW through google drive web interface and choose tiddlydrive as the application to open. It saves automatically, so every commit is saved. I am liking it so far. On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 10:16:29 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote: > > Passingby > > > - I assume it was a single file wiki? > - I would not be surprised if the same wiki was in two tabs/windows, > you worked on the second, but saved the first last. This overwrite step > would look identical to your regular save. > - This is one reason I use Timimi because the download saver is error > prone to human error. > - Personally I use Timimi in FireFox with the backup settings. As well > as TiddlyServer with backup settings. I am yet to establish this in Bob as > well. > > Something I plan to do is to update my Directory of wikis to have a link > that uses a target=wikiname, I would use this for new wikis as well. At > least in the same browser every time you access the wiki using the > directory link it will open in the same tab, ensuring you have only one > copy in edit at a time. Bob also helps by allowing you to have more than > one tab open with the same wiki safely. > > I feel for your frustration. > > Regards > Tony > > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 1:23:07 PM UTC+11, passingby wrote: >> >> There is a first time for everything. I lost data worth a few hours >> today. Its not the end of the world but I am at my wits end as to how it >> happened. I am sharing this to find out if you have any strange >> explanations or if it has happened to you like this ever. >> Here are the facts of the case: >> >> 1. I am on windows 10, chrome browser which I just checked, is up-to-date. >> 2. I was using the default saver, and I was over writing my file on the >> disk. >> 3. The file was physically located in Google drive folder, which is in >> sync all the time >> 4. I had been making notes since morning and periodically I pressed the >> save button and overwrote the local file. >> 5. I remember the dialog box warning for overwriting coming up, and I >> saying yes to it. I remember the sound of the warning too. (this makes me >> feel sure that I did save my file a couple of times at least) >> 6. At around 5pm PST, I closed the browser and shut down my laptop >> because my brain was fatigued and I thought I should move around a bit >> 7. I came back to the room after about half an hour and started my laptop. >> 8. When I opened my TW it had only one tiddler in it and that was the >> very first one from early afternoon. No other tiddlers were there. >> 9. I checked the local file time stamp and it had 12.30pm ! >> 10. I was dumbfounded! I went to my google drive on web and check the >> file version. There were none after 12.30pm! >> 11. I searched my chrome history to see if I accidentally was working on >> any other TW simultaneously with a similar name. Nope, nothing. >> 12. I searched my windows machine to see if I could find any local file I >> worked on. None. >> >> So what happened? The only explanation is that I did not save at all. >> This I am not ready to accept. I definitely saved a couple of times. But >> timestamp on my file as well as google driver version time says last >> modification was 12.30 pm. This is very strange. >> At one time during my workflow I pulled out the TW tab from my chrome and >> made it into separate window. And about an hour later I merged all the tabs >> back. I do not know, but I am suspecting maybe that splitting and merging >> did something. >> >> Well, the data was lost. That's okay. >> >> Assuming that I did press the save button and followed the process, is it >> in any way possible that Chrome did not overwrite the local file? >> > -- 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/1a702931-4867-4e39-9826-16f57d15d185%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
