I think it’s a type of sanitation to stop saving to arbitrary locations. although we expect we could save to folders below. have you tried removing the ./ so arc/ ?
I believe @pmario’s backup solution saves to a subfolder of the downloads
I don’t think you can specify file paths. If you could, we could solve all our “save” problems. The slashes are sanitised because slashes can’t be part of a file name.
Yes, but he uses a web extension to do that. The weakness with that approach is that you have to save below the downloads directory. Possibly these days you could use a juncture to link some other location to that location. Might be worth trying.
The browser makers are worried that you will visit a web-site which will then download an executable (“My Gosh Darn Awful Virus.exe”) into your systems directory, over-writing existing system files. When those files get run, as part of the OS normal process, your machine is infected.
I feel this too, but I blame the scammers for forcing defensive postures on us all. I hear of $100s of millions in scams almost daily. Via the “risky business” podcast.
once again these issues continue to support the value of Timimi and arguably developing it further, but we need more people skilled in browser add ons, in the community.
It only can save to the configured browser downloads folder and its subdirectories.
I did use Windows Junctions to redirect file saving from the downloads dir to other directories and backup them from there
I also use a drive X:\ root directory as my downloads directory. So I can use any subdirectory as a target directory. That’s one of the weaknesses of that browser “subdirectory only” restriction.
My main wiki runs as a single file wiki on Windows. I use a Webdav server that’s started in the background and also creates backups.
