Hello JD, WOW. WE FOUND IT!!
Yes! I knew that I did save and I was not imagining anything. THANK YOU. I have attached a screenshot from chrome's download's page. [image: TW Saving Failed.PNG] You know what, this only proves an old adage from my native language. It means something like, if you have a problem, go to your rooftop and shout it out, somebody would have an answer to your problem. And this is what happened here.I reached out and found a solution. Ancients were right. Thank you JD. On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 4:41:10 AM UTC-7, JD wrote: > > Hi, > > I love that we are now on different realities because of this problem, > which has also happened to me... But maybe your problem might really have > been alien in nature? > > I also use the download saver method, overwriting the same file and then > once in a while saving to a backup location. All of this on Google Drive, > too, like you. > > And you know what, sometimes Google Drive does this thing where it looks > like it has saved the file... until you look closely at the bottom bar of > the browser where it says "Failed - Insufficient permissions". Trouble with > this is you have to delete the file, wait for the deletion to sync and then > re-save. Mendokusai! Most worrying is, it looks exactly as if the file > actually saved. > > [image: Untitled.png] > > Maybe this is what happened? Well anyway, my condolences to your lost data. > > -jd > > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 12:24:37 PM UTC+9, passingby wrote: >> >> Thank you for your input. >> The TW was a fresh one which I downloaded today in the morning. The >> clocks were already 'spring ahead' on my laptop on sunday (should have, >> because I have on internet). So I dunno. >> >> Maybe I am just dreaming things. I suspected that maybe instead of 'Save' >> I have been hitting 'Cancel' all the time. But its really hard to accept >> that. Or maybe I did not save at all and I am not sleeping well. >> >> Sometimes I deeply suspect the nature of reality. I suspect that there is >> no objective reality and that world does not exist outside of our mind. But >> if the world of our mind does exist, then in that mind I DID save the file, >> so it should be there now. I don't know. >> >> >> On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 8:12:48 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> Wait, 5pm *PST*? That's not right. But it got me thinking. >>> >>> I suspect that the problem is an imperfect storm of GD and DST. Are you >>> continuously connected to the net? Did your laptop automatically update >>> the time over the weekend? Did you use the laptop over the weekend? I'm >>> thinking that when you first started writing to the disk it did so with a >>> timestamp that was an hour behind. GD then thought the file in the cloud >>> was newer. So GD wrote over your file. Unless you double-checked the >>> timestamp yourself and/or reloaded the TW file, you wouldn't know that it >>> had happened. >>> >>> That's my theory any way. Some variety of that. >>> >>> Well, hopefully it won't happen again for another 10 years. Or at least >>> until Oct. 26. >>> >>> -- Mark >>> >>> >>> On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:23:07 PM UTC-7, 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/e5301ad3-6cc0-4e95-8bfb-82f545164d1b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
