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I've just come across TW, and it looks cool. And this backup sounds great, but I installed it and it doesn't seem to work as shown in the video at least on MacOSX Firefox 84.0.2. As you can see in:

the diamond is there, but the save icon is the red default one and the functionality is the default one, and there is no icon on the URL box for reload/save. If I open the file in a second tab I do get a big red warning, so some of the functionality is working... just not the part I actually need!

Thanks for any help, as well as for having created this!

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Did you reload the TW tab, after installing the plugin?.

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The second problem I see is your file path. The browsers are only allowed to download to the browser download path, or a subdirectory there.

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Thanks. Yes, I had restarted Firefox... but the directory in the Downloads directory is a symlink, and somewhere along the way, it got followed. When I put the Downloads directory back in the path, it works. Thanks!

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Right Symlinks probably won't work since browsers know about them and don't follow, because of security reasons. There are some open issues in the Firefox developer repos, that may deal with the problem more liberal, in the future.

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Timimi may be an option for you, if you need to save to a different directory.

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I discovered a solution for this problem. Simply change under the Firefox settings the download location as follows. In Save files to, select the parent path of your TiddlyWiki, for example OneDrive (see image). Afterwards, you can switch back to Always ask you where to save files, which was my previous selection. Under the stated path in Save files to, TiddlyWiki works with the add-on again.

I have a windows machine with Firefox 92.0.1 (64-bit) the add-on version V0.4.0.

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@pat-githubber ... That's an interesting idea.

I do have a setting with a partition (a whole spare SSD), that is for the downloads folder only. So my "Save files to" is F:\ ... So the root directory of F: contains all the download files which I clear up from time to time.

My wikis are F:\wikis\xxxx ... but they can be in any subdirectory, since the download folder is F: ... That also works very well for me.

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@pmario, thank you for your reply!
That's smart! My long-term plan is to store TiddlyWiki on my own Nextcloud so it is good know that it will work.

However, one or two extra lines in the README documentation would be nice referring to that fact that the location of the TiddlyWiki file can be change while still using the add-on.

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