Nope, These files are nothing but snapshots of the old TiddlyWiki at that point in time. TiddlyWiki does never read those files again, but they're there in case something goes wrong, so you have an instance to fall back on. Unless/until you delete/modify a tiddler, or an error occurs, the files are redundant. A backup is created as soon as you save anything, which is probably too much for the average user. One thing you can do is to delete excessive backups by only keeping one backup from each day, or one backup from each week, or similar. Or, you could archive the files which should reduce the size drastically. Under anything UNIX-ey, this should work:
tar -cvjf basename.tar.bz2 basename.2009* j specifies bzip2 compression which is slightly more effective than gzip, and thus suitable for archival. You can of course use gzip instead. tar -cvzf basename.tar.gz basename.2009* You can of course store each month in a different archive if you so wish. tar -cvjf basename-200908.tar.bz2 basename.200908* When archived you can safely remove the relevant backup files. rm basename.200908* On anything Windows-ey, WinRAR with maximum compression and the option "Create solid archive" enabled should give you a good compression. Good luck! 2009/8/30 lapin <[email protected]>: > > Morning, > > Maybe this is something I haven't understood about Tiddlywiki but > aren't those back up files supposed to be kept in order to be able to > go back in time and compare? The rate at which the folder fills in I > will have to decide to delete older versions but I'd hate to do so > which is why I posted my question. > > Pascal > > On 30 août, 10:26, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm getting slightly concerned by the weight of index.html: 350Ko. >> > Repeated savings led to having a folder weighing 85Mo in one week >> >> Is there some reason why you are keeping so many old backup files? >> Once you are confident of the changes that have been made, you can >> discard all those files. The only file you *need* to keep around is >> the current index.html. >> >> enjoy, >> -e >> Eric Shulman >> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios > > > -- /Ove -----BEGIN 2ROT13 MESSAGE----- Blog: <http://gameboygenius.8bitcollective.com/> SKRIVA på Lysator. Ditt Ahrvid-fria alternativ: <http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/korkek?SKRIVA?> Sätt på ett par flipflops, vippa på rumpan och gör det här till en minnesvärd sommar! -----END 2ROT13 MESSAGE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
