The polly project (https://github.com/Marxsal/polly/) has been looking for feedback from Mac users. Polly basically leverages the default download saver, restoring your files from the download directory to your original working directory. Alas, it uses Powershell as the intermediary tool, which some people won't like. The advantages of this approach
- No binary executables - Human-readable batch script. - No special plugins in your TiddlyWiki file - No special browser required - No browser extension required. - No need for node.exe running in background - Total size expanded package only 100k - Backups as regular file and/or zip to specified directories - The ability to "parrot" extra copies to target directories (e.g. a Dropbox folder) I've been using it on Linux and Windows. The next release (already in the master branch) should allow the backup of an entire directory rather than just specified file. Mac may be more restrictive with permissions than Linux or Windows. I'm sure at a minimum a user will need to set some 744 settings on a launcher file, since that's what I needed on Linux. On Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 9:35:27 PM UTC-7, Sebastian Theilhaber wrote: > > Oh man do I hear you... > > I used to use the file backup from pmario and it's worked for me for > years, however, broke to the point that effectively I had to click through > to save the file- and backup-save every time by hand. > > That however completely broke down when moving on to FF74 (I'm a fan of > up-to-date-apps). > > However, I found that: > A) closing tiddlers / build-in save-function reliably saves the file every > single time, > B) hitting "command-s" (since it's a Mac), choosing the "right" > backup-file to replace + enter does it just as well. In fact with > considerably less hassle. > > I use the "tower of Hanoi"-method with backups from A to E and just tick > off the on a piece of paper. > > Far from ideal (and I find amazing to think that such a great piece of > software lacks THIS really really - from the consumer perspective, because > that's all I CAN be - functionality) but it works well enough for me, in > fact better than the extension... > > I have been at the brink of "leaving TW behind" a number of times over the > years ONLY because of that. > Only reason (at times) I didn't: no competitor for me (running a server > for a wiki or so is not an option for me). > I have invested A LOT of time in "my" file. It's become very dear and I > take no chances as far as backups are concerned. > I'm also backing up the backups, believe me, you do not ever want to be in > that kind of pain to lost this much of work.... > > Hope that helps. > > On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 8:33:51 PM UTC+11, Norm Davis wrote: >> >> Edited again: 3-22-2020 After getting a storm of notifications on tiddler >> regarding saving tiddly files I decided to see what's actually going on. >> >> On https://tiddlywiki.com/ Getting Started I found everything I needed >> to know. I upgraded 5.1.14 to 5.1.21 here >> https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html without a problem. I routinely use >> Tiddly desktop but also have Timmi and Node.js (which is confusing & >> complicated to me, so I stick with what I know) >> >> When I originally posted here Firefox had just destroyed their browser, >> v57 leaving the Tiddly team in a mess. They have since resolved these >> issues x10. Firefox and Chrome both are have chosen to develop their >> browsers in a number of ways not friendly to folks who create add-ons or >> products like Tiddlywiki. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f827aa56-5f2c-4860-8c9d-ad0ba1d7fdcf%40googlegroups.com.
