Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your reply and I am looking forward to replace my notes taking 
software "MS Onenote" with the "TiddlyFox or TiddlyDesktop" in the near 
futrure.

Daimip

On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 1:14:47 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote:
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> Hi daimip
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> Your proposal is admirably clear and well explained. I would love to be 
> able to implement it, but some of those capabilities remain out of reach 
> with current browser capabilities:
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> * When dragging a file into the browser, JS code only sees the content of 
> the file, and not it's path. Thus there is no opportunity to link to files 
> in their original locations
> * When saving changes, the default HTML5 fallback saver only permits a 
> single file to be saved at a time. There is no convenient way for the user 
> to control saving the subsidiary, attached files
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> Tantalisingly, a lot of your proposal does already work out of the box. 
> Using the `_canonical_uri` feature makes it possible to reference images, 
> PDFs etc as "external tiddlers" which reside in separate files and are only 
> loaded when required for display. We can easily support operations such as 
> downloading attachments. The obstacle is around the input of attachments.
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> We can do a lot better when using something like TiddlyFox or 
> TiddlyDesktop; both of them support unrestricted file access.
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> Best wishes
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> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:04 AM, PMario <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
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>> On Friday, June 19, 2015 at 12:00:13 AM UTC+2, [email protected] wrote:
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>>> I was wondering if possible to implement a feature/plugin to 
>>> *attach/store* local files (such as excel files, photoshop files, etc) 
>>> *under 
>>> a folder* at the same level as the TiddlyWiki file. Please see 
>>> "suggestion.png" for the actual logic and details.
>>>
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>> Ahh, I see :)
>> If you copy those files, using the OS file explorer.... Yes. .. Browsers 
>> are not allowed to directly write files to the users file system. This 
>> would be a huge security risk. So all browser vendors prevent direct file 
>> access. TW uses the default browser download mechanism or the TiddlyFox 
>> extension for FireFox to store itself. ... TiddlyDesktop doesn't have these 
>> restrictions, but I'm not sure, how difficult it would be to implement your 
>> suggested behaviour. ... and imo it doesn't make sense to create a new file 
>> browser, if every OS already has one. 
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>> hope that helps
>> mario
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