Error saving TW file

#1
  1. I’m using Tiddlywiki 5.2.2 and using Chrome v1.26.0.6478.127 (64-bit) to view and update it. I use the “HTML Native File System Saver” to save it.
  2. All saving was working fine yesterday. The first time I try to save the file today is when things went wrong.
  3. The file is only 5.4MB but located on a network drive.
  4. I updated the Todolist by Mohammed yesterday but saving worked fine yesterday after the update where I did a save and reload.

When I click the save button (red circle with checkmark) I get this error.

“Error while saving: Encountered error while saving to file system: [NotAllowedErro: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context.]”

  1. How do I get this TW file to save?
  2. I need this file on a network drive so it can be accessed by my laptop and 2 other remote desktops I use.
  3. I cannot use Tiddlyhost as all our routers block it. I’m on a VPN, this is for work. This file has all my work notes.

Thank you.

EDIT:

  1. I copied the additions to one Tiddler to a text file (my notes are in Markdown) and saved the text file.
  2. I reloaded the TW file and added back the additions, and saved the file. No error.

I now have my content saved. Any idea what is going on though?

#2

Searching for the full error message always points to discussion about video, or audio playback. So do you use any automatic video or audio playback or something similar?

#3

I don’t have videos in the Tiddlywiki. My TW is 99% text with a few images. I do have another Chrome window open which plays a video for a tutorial I’m doing.

I remember that I had problems this morning after my computer went to sleep for the night and I woke up the computer. And I had to reconnect to our VPN this morning as well, which I do every morning. When I let the laptop sleep I leave all windows open. This works fine 99% of the time but I guess this was the 1% of the time it didn’t work so well.

#4

Others may have better advice, but I would certainly encourage you to export your session’s new tiddlers as JSON, rather than just copying and pasting to a text file.

In Advanced Search, choose Filter. Start with “Tiddlers modified since the wiki was loaded” (which is the [haschanged[]] filter), and then tweak as needed (removing all system tiddlers if you like, or just those that are in $:/temp namespace, etc.).

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Export as JSON, and then you can drag the single JSON file (with all of these recent tiddlers encoded in that JSON) to your re-loaded wiki (and import selectively if you suspect any of them to be somehow causing trouble). Of course, you still need to troubleshoot what’s preventing the save. But this is a better “emergency parachute” than trying to copy and paste content from your tiddlers into some kind of text file.

Export as JSON using the export button:

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#5

Great idea Springer! In this case I had edited only one tiddler when the whole file “went bad”. I was taking notes for a tutorial I’m doing. So I managed to fix it all.

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