HELP! Firefox conflicts and losing new edits.

[Naamah]

So, after a long time letting it languish, I come back to a TW I'd
been working on, and I put about six hours' worth of work on it before
realizing that it wasn't creating backups, and I couldn't save.

So now I have this file open with six hours' worth of work on it that
I really really don't want to lose, and no way to save it.

I found the discussion about modifying the user.js file, and to the
extent that I understood what it was saying (I am not sure I did, this
is far from my forte) I think I actually did that, but it does say
that I have to restart Firefox to get the preferences thing to work.

If I restart Firefox, I'll lose my work.

Needless to say, I am absolutely livid.

I'm using Firefox 16.0.1 on a Windows 7 computer.

Please advise. I've done the best thing I can think of to do, which
is take a (massive) screencap of every edit I've committed, but dear
god, it'll be just as much work restoring it from there as it was
putting it in in the first place.

Keep in mind I am smart, but I know f-all about computers,
programming, and the like (which is why I liked TW in the first
place). Please try to make things incredibly simple.

[TonG]

Hi Naamah,

I don't know if there is a better option, but this works:
Tiddlytools has a bookmarklet "Save current storeArea contents to clipboard" (search for bookmarklet).
Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks.
With your TW open, click the bookmarklet and follow the instructions.
Then at least you can have all your tiddlers as plain text in a text editor.
 Use an "old" (v3.6.x) portable version of Firefox to circumvent the security/saving problems with new versions (especially v 15 and up).

Good luck,

Ton

[PMario]

Hi Naamah,

I did a short test with an empty.html TW file with FF 16.0.1.

you'll need some keyboard comands an a plain text editor (not word).
Notepad should work.

* Open the texteditor.

* If you commit all your open tiddlers, ([done] button) you can _right
click_ anywhere inside the TW document

* The dialog should have an option "View page source code", which
shows the whole TW source code. (I do have a german installation, so
your text may be different)

* with <ctrl><a> "mark all"
* <ctrl><c> copy into clipboard
* select the opened notepad
* <ctrl><v> paste

Save the file as "backup.txt"
rename the file to "backup.html"
and open it with the browser.

With my PC stetup, it worked ...

all the best
mario

[Naamah]

Thank you to you both!  I got the text saved, at least.  I'm going to look into installing an earlier version on my flash drive presently.

Grazie mille,

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