This machine is running Windows 11. I am using Tiddlyhost. I have NO plugins (I don’t know how to do that).
I am disabled. Every word of this message has had at least one typo. DO NOT say “this is easy,” not unless you want to try typing that message while wearing a pair of oven mitts first.
As a result of the problems caused by item 2, I have /serious/ problems with most “under the hood” actions. I try to avoid them.
This is now an urgent situation but I cannot get results no matter how often I change the settings to match what I have found online or in the default Tiddlywiki settings.
The situation: I moved the mouse while doing something and suddenly the sidebar takes up the full screen and then some. I can see the last five or six letters of a fifteen-letter tiddler title. The individual (single only) tiddler opens below the entire sidebar menu, which now requires scrolling at least a screen and a half.
I’ve tried to go through the settings and copy them item by item from a blank new tiddlywiki. It won’t change.
I’ve tried to export the file as a whole. That seemed to work. BUT I have never been able to import the save to a new tiddlywiki.
I’m using the Tiddlyhost because I cannot fiddle with the bits and bobs to get the desktop version to unzip or install. (Mechanical issues with my hands and the mouse.) Taking the machine to Best Buy or another computer support service wouldn’t help unless the person had already worked with Tiddlywiki.
So, here I am.
The file is the equivalent of a Master’s thesis, and incredibly important to me. Starting over is not an option.
Does it help (temporarily) to use a keyboard shortcut to close the sidebar?
shift-alt-S on Windows
shift-opt-S on a mac
You don’t mention anything about text getting enlarged. I know on my mac there are gestures or “helpful” shortcuts that can trigger something like a zoom-in effect that can be very hard to get out of. I’m curious whether there’s anything like that going on.
Tiddlyhost dashboard should have an option to upload a version of a file to replace an existing one. (Maybe download a copy of your current tiddlyhost file first, just in case the result is not helpful.) I have the paid version of tiddlyhost ($8 monthly), and it helpfully lets me rewind to any prior saved version. That has gotten me out of some pickles.
I’ll try to stay tuned in case you have an update.
I am working from Tiddlyhost (you can see that in the address bar of the screen capture. Does that still work? If it will, I’ll keep trying until I manage it.
I will be going out now and returning later in the day. I would be prepared to use zoom or team manager or another remote control tool. If you can export your wiki to file and can share it with someone it may be easier to repair.
I have seem a similar problem before, but dont recall what caused it.
Specific to closing the sidebar: No go. (Cut out several minutes of frustrated Anglo-Saxon.)
Thank you, though, I’d not learned any of the keyboard shortcuts because the mistyping issue is so aggravating for me. Necessity is truly the mother of many things, including determination along with invention.
Sure. Absolutely NOTHING resizes it. I’ve gotten into the control panel and tried everything that I can think of. First, systematically, then random values. Nada.
Download successful. “Drag and drop into an empty HTML” is where I’m not following. An empty Tiddlywiki? An empty .HTML file? Clearly, I’ve never done this before.
https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted has a big Download button that will give you a copy of empty.html. If you open that, you’ll get a minimal wiki. This is where you should drag your downloaded copy.
