Also posted in TWC Forum Josiah,
This threads title does little to promote this great idea. Which I only now understand because I spent a little time working through the conversations. I know much of this has being said but its being in discussion rather than statements. Please let me try When using the default save mechanism in any browser, you can save changes resulting in a download of the whole Wiki, having an automatic process on your computer, the wiki can then be copied back to your original single file wiki. There by keeping the original upto date. This is done by running a monitor and copy process in your local computer. Open a tiddlywiki.html file (by another name) using your local file manager and it will open in your default browser. Without any other save mechanism in place, Each time you save, the browser will download the latest version of the wiki into your downloads folder. This means the updated version is not saved over the original version you opened, but you have a copy of the latest version. (As I understand it) Mark S solution is to run a batch process on the computer to take any updated wiki copy in the downloads folder and copy it back to its source wikifile, thus keeping the original up to date. My View on this Josiah and Mark are right to think this could be a ground breaking way to manage wiki saves. Mark has done a good job of building a Powershell to do this. We can write batch shell scripts for every operating system and share these quite easily. Personally I think an executable program to do the same, or even just install and help configure, may be a better option in time, allowing it to be installed Quickly and a version for each Operating system made available. These executables my just create the correct scripts. Although this process seems somewhat universal it does expect a certain behaviour from the browser(s) which could actually change in time. We need to monitor this and add additional methods if these change. Love your work Regards Tony On Monday, 20 May 2019 23:05:35 UTC+10, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > At the moment, on modern browsers, saving TW without any custom saver, > means the save ends up in "Downloads". > > We have no tool to "auto resurrect" and copy back that save for those > kinds of saves. Copying back has to be manual and can get complicated in a > forest of downloads. > > The more I think about this the more odd it seems. > > I mean, with an "AUTO-RESTORE" from saves in Download to a wiki directory > ANY browser could be used and with ANY version of TW. We would not be > dependent on specific solutions. > > Any thoughts on how to do this? And its probable value? > > I know Mark S. has thought about it. > > Best wishes > Josiah > -- 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/3d8f23c3-7e40-4051-b9c2-249ad7161b97%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
