External Attachments for Plain Text?

#1

Hey folks - I’m having trouble inserting a plain-text file using the External Attachments plugin.

What I’ve tried:

  • install “External Attachments” from the TiddlyWiki plugin librar
  • create a new tiddler of type Plain Text
  • set the _canonical_uri field to test.txt
  • create a test.txt file in the same directory as my wiki’s HTML file
  • relaunch TiddlyDesktop

TiddlyWiki gives me the “I can’t find it” error:

Trying to load external content from test.txt
If this message doesn’t disappear, either the tiddler content type doesn’t match the type of the external content, or you may be using a browser that doesn’t support external content for wikis loaded as standalone files. See https://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalText

(unfortunately, the ExternalText page on TiddlyWiki is missing…)

I tried using ./test.txt, like in the “Alice in Wonderland” sample from TiddlyWiki.com, but that didn’t help. TiddlyDesktop logs no errors. Adding a .png file that’s in the same folder as the wiki HTML works just fine.

I’m sure I’m missing something - any ideas? Thanks!

#2

@Peter This does not answer your question. Rather, I simply use HTML to reference external files. Example:

<object data="test.txt" width="100%" height="800"></object>
#3

I have used this method too, it displays the content.

  • We can’t [Edited to the negative] then manipulate the content
  • If we need to then manipulate perhaps using the new tm-http-request ?
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