Unable to download an editable copy of tiddlyWiki5

[molicule]

Hi,

Its been a while since I visited tiddlywiki and wanted to check out the spanking new html5 from five.tiddlywiki.com

For some reason all my attempts (except one) to get an editable copy seem to fail. I tried the following

Using a chrome browser

1. Download from five.tiddlywiki.com - couldn't save changes

2. Edit five.tidlywiki.com and added my tiddlyspot credentials - after a few tries it did save with multiple 0 - fileindex.html alerts and than i tried to edit on http://silkroad.tiddlywiki.com but couldn't save changes

3. git cloned the the repo and removed hardcoded references to directory jermolene.github.com from bld.sh and ran it. - This created emplty.html and other tw5 html files in the directory specified. But when I load them from the filesystem, make changes and save it 'downloads a copy of the file to the Downloads directory ' - However :-) it did "save the changes" I made.

4. I then tried to go to dropbox.tiddlywiki.com and tried to open 'an older version of a tw file' - it said error not a tiddlywiki file, than i tried to open the bld.sh created empty.html and got the same error.

I'm sure there must be something simple I'm missing here. If anyone could point me to what I need to do to get a a CRUD going on tiddlywiki5 that would be great.

Sriram

[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Sriram,

Good to hear of your interest in TiddlyWiki5, and glad you were able to try it out.

The documentation is a little dishevelled at the moment which is why some of the results of your experiments seem a little unexpected.

1) This should have worked in the same way as (3) below, I'm not sure why you got different results

2) If you are familiar with Chrome developer tools, or equivalent, it would be illuminating to report on the network HTTP issued when the failed save occurs

3) This is the expected result. The approach of downloading your changes out of TiddlyWiki, rather than saving them directly, is necessitated by modern browsers ongoing suppression of the saving features we've used in the past. Although the 'download' thing takes a bit of getting used to it's pretty cool that it works on virtually all desktop browsers. For many people the ability to save changes whilst offline is a lifeline that they need to use now and again, rather than something they do regularly. For those people that need to work offline regularly, there's options like TiddlyFox and AppJS.

4) That is correct, dropbox.tiddlywiki.com is only for working with old 2.x TiddlyWiki documents. TiddlyWiki5 will work with Dropbox (and similar) directly.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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