I have just downloaded Tiddlydesktop, and I’m trying open a new wiki but when I click “open” I am only getting the box shown in the screenshot. Has anyone encountered a similar issue?
I’m very new to Linux, but I try to figure out the issue myself. This one has stumped me though!
Check the extension of the Tiddlywiki HTML file. It appears to be reading it as a plain text file rather than a .html
Just a guess.
Yup, I just tested it myself. If your Tiddlywiki file has no extension or .txt or something other than .html, it will display the raw HTML as plain text
Hmmm but the file I am attempting to click on, was created in Tiddlydesktop yesterday. When I click on this file, it opens up in my Firefox browser as a generic Tiddywiki file.
That may be, but when you “create” a new Tiddlywiki within TiddlyDesktop, it simply pulls a copy of the empty.html and then prompts you where to save it. If you named it but left off the .html extension when selecting the location to save it, then it would have saved without the extension. Firefox will try to determine the file type, and it can fairly quickly realize it is an HTML file and display it, even without the extension. Just double check the extension, because TiddlyDesktop will require it to have a .html extension.
My goodness you were right! The “create new wiki” button in TiddlyDesktop opens a .txt file, not a html file - I have no idea why it would do that. I just went to Tiddlywiki website and was able to save a html file to my home directory and it worked completely fine! I’m embarrassed to say how long I’ve been trying to figure this out!!
Yep, that’s what I did. I assumed it would have saved the file as an .html file automatically. Appreciate your help, thank you!
