Thank you for the quick update and I'm sorry to here about your mother. I have the simple workaround of using Internet Explorer which isn't a massive hardship for me. Families come first.
On 3 December 2013 17:03, Eric Shulman <elsdes...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC-8, Gary Barker wrote: >> >> Did this problem ever get solved? >> Saving in Chrome stopped working for me a month or more ago. Today I >> tried starting from a fresh empty.zip version but Chrome simply resorts to >> downloading a new version to my Downloads folder every time it saves which >> isn't any use. TiddlySaver.jar is definitely in the folder with the wiki. >> > > The fallback "download saver" is trying to save your document **with your > changes**. When TiddlySaver.jar (or the other local file I/O handlers) > fail, TiddlyWiki triggers the browser's built-in "download a file" > mechanism to attempt to save the file by simulating a download event. The > downloaded file is actually constructed on-the-fly from the current tiddler > content loaded in your browser (including any new/changed tiddlers), rather > than merely making a copy of the previously saved file. Most browsers > allow you to change the download settings so that it will *ask* for a > target filename and folder, rather than defaulting to your Downloads > folder. With this setting active, you can navigate to the current document > folder, and select the active document to overwrite it with the updated > content. Of course, the browser will ask for confirmation before > overwriting. > > I am still looking into some reported problems with the download/save > fallback mechanism. It *was* working for all major browsers, and still > seems to work for many users, but may have run afoul of recent browser > updates for some people on some platform/OS configurations. I am working > on putting together the next TiddlyWiki Classic update (v2.8.2), in which I > hope to include some possible fixes or workarounds to provide a more > consistent fallback handling experience. Unfortunately, due a major family > crisis (my Mother had a stroke two days before Thanksgiving!), I've been > quite distracted recently. Although I cannot reliably state when that > update will be posted, my intention is to release it by the end of this > month. > > -e > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/gZM8gxKGSV8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/104223712160178727877/posts FB: https://www.facebook.com/gary.barker.uk -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
