Can't save in Safari ?

[tonyt3]

I have gone through the basic "start here" exercises, and the
TiddlyWiki works fine... but I can't save anything. I've seen a few
posts from people having trouble with "save" using Safari; I have
tried all the suggestions, including adding a small file in the
tiddlywiki directory, putting in a permissions statement in
the .java..... file in the user's home directory, and I have
followed up on the possible errors that pop up from the java error
screen. After several hours of fruitless effort, I wonder whether
TiddlyWiki will work with Safari/ has anyone been successful? If so I
would appreciate suggestions very much, or pointers to other
solutions.
Many thanks
tony

MacBook Pro core 2 duo, 10.5.2

[Eric Shulman]

> I wonder whether TiddlyWiki will work with Safari/ has anyone been successful?

Assuming you are putting your TW documents in
/Documents/TiddlyWiki

First, download and copy http://www.tiddlywiki.com/TiddlySaver.jar and
place it in /Documents/TiddlyWiki

Then, in your user.home folder (typically /Users/YourName), put the
'.java.policy' file (note the exact name is important, and MUST start
with a ".")

This file should contain:
-------------
grant codeBase "file:${user.home}/Documents/TiddlyWiki/*"
{ permission java.io.FilePermission "${user.home}/Documents/
TiddlyWiki/*", "read,write"; };
----------------

Then... and this is VERY important... for the above .java.policy file
to take effect, you MUST make sure you completely close Safari... not
just close all the browser windows... actually EXIT from the
application.... and then restart it.

HTH,
-e
Eric Shulman
TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios

[tonyt3]

As a follow-up on this: I've revised my files to save everything in
Documents/TiddlyWiki

done (again) all the things suggested here;
carefully

cleared all the caches, and restarted the machine.

no joy. same answer from Java; files not saved.
Bummer.

all suggestions welcomed. thanks
tony

[NCBob]

I'm having the same problem, it won't save the backup or the actual
TiddlyWiki.

I also have problems on a Windows machine as well, it looks like it's
saving, but when you re-open it nothing is there you have a blank
Tiddly

[tonyt3]

Thanks to suggestions from Eric, he clarified the problem in Safari:

there are suggestions elsewhere about the file .java.policy;

in the "right way" to do it, the segment
"file:${user.home}/Documents ...
appears twice. The expression $user.home will specify the user's
home directory correctly; however, you must remove the curly
brackets around the directory name, on my machine, and then it
works like a charm.