V0.4.0 extension stops working

[pmario]

Have fun!
mario

PS: If you use it: Support it!

[jeroppi]

Dear Mario

Thank you very much for creating File-Backups for Tiddlywiki.

I am having this weird issue: File-backups (0.4.0) works perfectly for a while, but then all of a sudden it stops saving the backups.
If I am lucky, at some point in time it will work again, (but just for a short time: maybe for a day or for some hours) and after a while it breaks again and seems to stop working for good.

I cannot recognize any cause nor any patterns. The behavior seems erratic to me.

Windows 10 (update 2004), Firefox 77.0.1 (64-bit).

Firefox download options settings (please see screenshot):

I have created a folder (other than Windows' "Downloads") for Firefox downloads, because I want to have my wikis and backups saved on their own partition of my Notebook's SSD. Firefox seems to be OK with that: "File-Backups" works like a charm, saving the wikis, creating the backup folders and populating these with the backups. (Except when it stops working.)

I have Firefox set up to "always ask where to save files", but when "File-Backups" is working fine, the wikis are correctly saved and backed up without Firefox asking me anything.

At some point in time I then notice that "File-Backups" has stopped working because Firefox starts to ask me where to save the wiki. I then browse to the usual location, but Firefox says that the file already exists, and my only option is to overwrite it. And no backups are created in the backup folders.

Is this a known issue?
Do you know if I can I do something to stop this issue?

Yours truly
Jeronimo Miniño

[pmario]

I have Firefox set up to "always ask where to save files", but when "File-Backups" is working fine, the wikis are correctly saved and backed up without Firefox asking me anything.

That's a configuration I didn't test. .. So I'll have to have a closer look here.

[pmario]

Is your PC running 24/7 and FireFox open all the time?

[jeroppi]

No, my PC is not exactly running 24/7 with Firefox open all the time. Every 2 or 3 days I switch off the PC for a couple of hours. The rest of the time, I have FF open (editing TWs).

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[jeroppi]

I don´t have the impression that this setting matters much. I have also tried the setting where Firefox saves without asking me. What happens then is: a) when File-Backups works: Everything works fine b) when File-Backups stops working: each time I save a wiki, Firefox saves a new (numbered) copy of the wiki in the folder that I have designated for saving purposes, and nothing is saved in the backup folders. An hour ago all of a sudden File-Backups started working fine again. I have no idea what triggered that. According to my experience, during the next hours I expect it to stop working again. Kind regards

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:23 AM Mario Pietsch ***@***.***> wrote: I have Firefox set up to "always ask where to save files", but when "File-Backups" is working fine, the wikis are correctly saved and backed up without Firefox asking me anything. That's a configuration I didn't test. .. So I'll have to have a closer look here. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#34 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AK4ELDYJIXNEBWMNHVYJPETRZDLZ7ANCNFSM4LQPMSTA> .

[pmario]

How big is your wiki in MByte?

[pmario]

Do you edit several wikis at the same time? ... I'm asking, so I can "rebuild" a setting, that is similar to yours.

[pmario]

So you use the "Always ask, where to save" as an indicator, when fb fails. right?

[pmario]

@jerojerojeroppi ... I did rename the issue and tagged it as bug

[jeroppi]

Currently, my biggest wiki is 14 MB. btw I expect these wikis to grow as I keep adding contents and functionality for my distance courses. Apropos "Functionality": pluginmäßig benutze ich z.Z. meist "Noteslam", TiddlyTables und TiddlyMap.

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:07 PM Mario Pietsch ***@***.***> wrote: How big is your wiki in MByte? — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#34 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AK4ELD6Z45YSRERA5EV5L6DRZG2NFANCNFSM4LQPMSTA> .

[jeroppi]

No, I usually don't edit several wikis at the same time. I usually work with only one wiki open at a time.

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 7:08 PM Mario Pietsch ***@***.***> wrote: Do you edit several wikis at the same time? ... I'm asking, so I can "rebuild" a setting, that is similar to yours. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#34 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AK4ELDYJEIKOD2SBP6NNNA3RZG2QDANCNFSM4LQPMSTA> .