The https://github.com/pmario/file-backups/releases/tag/V0.3.5 redirects you to the German version in FF addons, not the English one. You may want to change a part of the link from "de" to "en-US".
With the new version of the add-on (I presume because nothing else has changed since yesterday), my TWs won’t save and won’t backup anymore. Windows 7, FF 58.0.2. Hope you can fix the fix quickly. :)
Maybe the plugin could spit out a warning?
This is why I switched off auto-updates in the plugin settings some time ago. Nevertheless I forgot to restart and had to export a JSON file from the advanced search for the last changed tiddlers ...
Thank you anyway for this great tool!
Thomas
Confirming: After the update a browser restart is necessary, otherwise the ability to save is lost. (Mac, FF Developer Edition)
Maybe the plugin could spit out a warning?
This is why I switched off auto-updates in the plugin settings some time ago. Nevertheless I forgot to restart and had to export a JSON file from the advanced search for the last changed tiddlers ...
Are you saying that the addon was updated not on browser startup but at an arbitrary point in between?
How could I have even noticed that?
Why would it render the wikis unsavable until restart (which means losing the work already done)?
That’s not something that should happen, ever, I think.
Because they save my work without, you know, an addon with all the crappy dependencies and unknowns and (your phrasing is ironic really) “edge cases”.
That’s not something that should happen, ever, I think.
You are right. ... But there are always edge cases, a developer didn't think about. ..
goto filter tab,
enter the filtertext below
[!is[system]!sort[modified]limit[25]]
Check the list of tiddlers.
adjust the number "25" to make sure you found all your recently modified tiddlers
Then press the bucket with the up arrow [_^_] which appears on the right
This will ask for a location to store the tiddlers into a file called tiddler.json on your local drive. Press save.
the tiddlers.json file can be imported (tools in sidebar) or drag and drop file on the top line of the story river of anather tw . (Press Esc if you change your mind ;-). You can (de)select specific tiddlers. Then press import.
Similar In the viewtoolbar of a tiddler you can export the current tiddler.
Njoy
Kr wjam
To the people suggesting backups: You’re aware, right? that we are talking about unsaved (and unsavable), ‘dirty’ files here, for which the backup process (simultaneous to the save) has already failed
But you said it runs every 5 minutes. So you kind of have to be aware that you haven't seen an announcement in the last 5 minutes?
Better to just get a warning from TW that something is amiss.
I do make my own backups, but the last one was over a week ago.
Fortunately, I was able to pull out a very recent backup from Mario's automated backups and now everything is restored.
So thanks againJon