Saving destinations

[Kate B]

MBP, 2017, OS Catalina, Chrome & FF, TiddlyDT

TiddlyCats - my backups are stored in a folder I created when I first started to use your lovely programme that sits on my DT. I want to move this folder - ideally into the cloud, or at least off the DT. Could anyone please tell me how to do this? (I'm afraid I'm just learning your lingo and though I've tried to read all about saving I find, I confess, my eyes glazing over ...) 

Need I mention I have zero programming/coding knowledge and experience?? 

Thanks in advance.

Kate

[Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 05:18:48PM -0800, Kate B wrote:
> MBP, 2017, OS Catalina, Chrome & FF, TiddlyDT
>
> TiddlyCats - my backups are stored in a folder I created when I first
> started to use your lovely programme that sits on my DT. I want to move
> this folder - ideally into the cloud, or at least off the DT. Could anyone
> please tell me how to do this? (I'm afraid I'm just learning your lingo and
> though I've tried to read all about saving I find, I confess, my eyes
> glazing over ...)

I'll assume your goal here is "have my *backups* somewhere else should my
computer get stolen/go kaput". That said...

Have you considered using dropbox for this? Their basic plan offers you
2GB, for free (at least according to them):
https://www.dropbox.com/basic ; you could just start using your dropbox
folder as the backup destination.

Or if, besides your MBP, you own/can install programs in a second computer,
you could try Syncthing, which is a free alternative to dropbox, and
would let you achieve the same thing you'd do with dropbox (get your
backups somewhere else, outside your computer), but which is,
admittedly, harder to setup. If you feel adventurous, check
https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html#getting-started

I hope I helped a bit with your issue.

Cheers,

--
Javier

Ps: wow, TiddlyCats! Now we only need someone to draw a really cheesy
mix of a tiddler and a ThunderCat!

[Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:36:46PM -0500, Javier Eduardo Rojas Romero wrote:
> Or if, besides your MBP, you own/can install programs in a second computer,
> you could try Syncthing, which is a free alternative to dropbox, and
> would let you achieve the same thing you'd do with dropbox (get your
> backups somewhere else, outside your computer), but which is,
> admittedly, harder to setup. If you feel adventurous, check
> https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html#getting-started

It's somewhat off-topic, but I forgot to mention this blog post/rant
about what's annoying of dropbox and nice about syncthing:
https://tonsky.me/blog/syncthing/ ; it's somewhat written in
programmer-ese, but still a nice read.

[Kate B]

Javier,

Thanks so much for your response and suggestions. Actually, I do use dropbox for lots of files I need to have 'here and there' What I'm not sure about is how to go about having my tiddly files back up onto DB? Is that terribly lame? I suppose it may be: I just can't figure it out. 

Would you be kind enough to give me some bright green newb pointers? When I've tried to move my WIKI folder off the DT - you will not be surprised to know that trying to open them in TWDT shows the files are AWOL. Moving the folder back to the DT, files are open-able again.

Syncthing - LOL! - love the idea, but 'harder to set up' ... gives me pause (I went and had a quick gander at the link 😳) . Don't love DB and when feeling brave and/or reckless may give Syncthing a go? Presently it seems a bit of a headscratcher, tho, to be honest. Oooh, just found the second link you posted and it looks like I can get my head around that. Superb! Much appreciated... but I think perhaps the question may remain. How to direct my saving to a particular destination?

Cheers,

Kate

[Soren Bjornstad]

Kate,

I don't think there's a way to change the open/save path of an existing file in TiddlyDesktop, but after moving the file on your hard drive, if you click "remove", then "add wiki file" in TiddlyDesktop, you can reselect the file in its new location. This won't affect your data at all since all the content is stored in the wiki file, not in TiddlyDesktop.

[TW Tones]

Folks,

If you are using a Tiddlywiki backup in the browser process the backup files can only be saved in the download folder or a subfolder there of. If you make use of Timimi, TiddlyServer and others you can specify where the backups are (outside of browser security), in which case if your dropbox or one drive etc is syncing local folders to the cloud, just add the folder to the sync or place the backup folder in the correct location for syncing.

Tiddly Desktop can set where you store the file as Soren outlined, this can be a synced folder.

Keep in mind if you are syncing to a cloud platform such as Drop Box, you do not need it to sync your backup files, just the wikifile, as resync occurs after the file is changed and old versions are retained in drop box.

Regards

Tones

[Kate B]

Soren,

I'm late to thank you for your comment which clarifies somewhat the 'architecture' I'm trying to figure out. @Tones, too, thanks - I'll give your route a go!

Kate