issues when saving wiki - request for alternative/emergency save mechanism

[Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero]

Hello everybody,

I have a tiddlywiki that I save to the local filesystem, using the
timimi plugin ( https://ibnishak.github.io/Timimi/ ).

I have just noticed that saving my wiki doesn't work (it's supposed to
autosave, but both the autosave and manual save don't work). This seems
to be a problem with my browser, not Timimi, since all the browser
extensions I use are non-functional (Firefox 85.0.2, Windows, BTW).

I made lots of changes today, that I'd rather not lose, and I don't know
of an alternative way of saving my wiki, e.g., by downloading it as an
HTML file.

Do you know of such a way/have a suggestion for my situation?

Right now, the only way I see of preserving my changes is: searching for
all tiddlers modified since $TIMESTAMP, exporting them to JSON, save
that file, import that back once things get back to normal with my
browser/extensions.

Related to that approach: is there any way of searching for "unsaved"
tiddlers, other than estimating the last time I saved?

Thanks,

--
Javier

[Mark S.]

In the advanced search under filters there is a dropdown list of filters. One of them is "Tiddlers modified since last load". It basically runs [haschanged[]] .  Saving to a json is effectively an emergency save. You can reload into a working TW.

It's concerning if an extension has stopped working. I think it was early 2019 when someone at FF forgot to set a certificate correctly and thousands of extensions went off line. Hopefully nothing of that magnitude has happened again.

[Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 03:41:03PM -0800, 'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki wrote:
> In the advanced search under filters there is a dropdown list of filters.
> One of them is "Tiddlers modified since last load". It basically runs
> [haschanged[]] . Saving to a json is effectively an emergency save. You
> can reload into a working TW.

I just did that, with the filter expression you suggested, and was able
to later reopen the wiki and get my changes back in place. Thanks!

> It's concerning if an extension has stopped working. I think it was early
> 2019 when someone at FF forgot to set a certificate correctly and thousands
> of extensions went off line. Hopefully nothing of that magnitude has
> happened again.

Apparently it was just me; I restarted firefox and things are back to
normal.

As a sidenote, I might reconsider changing the saving method I use; for
other wikis I have, I use webdav, and albeit a bit slow, it works fine,
without additional extensions ...

[PMario]

On Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 4:51:30 PM UTC+1 Javier Rojas wrote:

Apparently it was just me; I restarted firefox and things are back to
normal.

Just a guss!

This can happen, if FF did update in the background. It can interfere with AddOns.

So if you didn't restart FF for several days, this could be the cause.

-mario