Losing work in TW on new laptop!

#1

Hi everyone

I just got a new work laptop with Windows. Installed Timimi on Chrome and added the same settings I had in Timimi on the old laptop.

This has happened twice on the same stand alone file that I transferred from the old laptop:

I add data, and it says “Saved wiki” every time. But if I hit refresh, or if I close the laptop and open the file the next day, I have lost all changes since the file was transferred from the old laptop.

[edit: TiddlyWiki file is version 5.3.1]

Any ideas on what to try to get it to work properly? This is very frustrating.

Thanks for any advice.

#2

check the log (timimi.txt) in the folder where timimi is located. does it show many failed save attempts? if it can’t find the path, verify it is correct on the new computer?

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#3

Hi @DaveGifford ,

just to be sure, have you installed the executable from this page?

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#4

Thank you, Scribs and BurningTree, for your help. The executable seems to have been what I needed.

I got the extension from the Chrome page for Timimi. Because it’s an extension for Chrome. Whoever is in charge of Timimi should make the link to the working version visible in the control panel for the Timimi Chrome extension or on the Chrome page for Timimi. How would I have ever known, from following what should be the correct process to install the extension, that I had to go to that link on GitHub to get the executable?

#5

I think the expectation is that you start from the other side – that is start with github. Which is what would have happened if you had looked first at links.tiddlywiki.org or the TiddlyWiki toolmap.

I don’t think we want to shake Riz’s cage – he’s already claimed to have left TW. So we’re lucky to still have this resource for awhile.

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#6

Okay, no worries, not trying to step on toes. But the expectation that makes more sense, just to answer your comment, is that if you add a Chrome extension you do it from Chrome, and if there is a special process it should be stated there.

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#7

Timimi was in response to changes in browsers that restricted local saving, at the time it was seen as a saviour, and it was clear that it achieved it by using a web-extension.

  • When it was released the idea of web-extension’s was foremost in our minds.
  • Using a web-extension involves a local install component that called a “native host” for the browser session to communicate with.

I have proposed a small documentation change Update Timimi Extension and executable by Riz.tid #7726 but need to deal with an error I added.

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#8

On github just go on your branch (patch-29). Edit the file. Commit. It will automatically be part of the merge, should the merge happen.

#9

Now I am trying to find in which folder this tiddler would reside?

Unfortunate I don’t know my way around the folders.

I found a goto file button, thanks