Firefox, Ubuntu 20.04 and External HDD

sepremento commented 4 years ago

Hi!

I've just switched to Ubuntu 20.04. Formerly I used Timimi for Firefox on Windows and stored my backup files on an external drive. Now it doesn't work. I get an error message: Timimi save failed: attempt to postmessage on disconnected port. I think there are several things which might be wrong, but I don't know which ones and I am not familiar with changing everything on Linux, so I need an advice:

My path to the external drive could be wrong. I know that Linux mounts drives to /media, so I write my path in Timimi like this /media/username/volume name/folder/.
There are also spaces and Russian symbols in the path, that might be interfering: /media/username/русские символы/. Should I use quotes? Should I rename volumes? I tried quotes though with no success, but maybe I was doing it wrong.
My external drive is in NTFS. Can this be a problem?
Maybe Linux prevents saving to external folder by default and I should use internal storage? As it might be obvious right now I am a complete newbie yet. However I tried to move a folder into the ~/Documents and the same error was raised.
Maybe I need some right or whatnot.

Thank you in advance! Sincerely, Boris.

ibnishak commented 4 years ago

Hi Boris. Just confirming: You have installed the timimi backend for Ubuntu, right?

sepremento commented 4 years ago

My bad, haven't seen those instructions before. I've downloaded timimi-2-1-1-Linux, but my system tries to open it in a text editor. It is a shell script right?

ibnishak commented 4 years ago

Try the following commands in your terminal

cd ~/Downloads chmod +x ./timimi-2-1-1-Linux ./timimi-2-1-1-Linux

sepremento commented 4 years ago

Thank you very much! Installation went well. Now the backups are saved OK on the external HDD and all the changes are consequently saved in the backups, but the original file is not updating. I get the error message: Error while saving data by Timimi Host. Please check error.log for details. Made a search for that file and skimmed through help and haven't found where it is.

ibnishak commented 4 years ago

Check if there is a file called timimi.log in ~/.local/share/timimi or ~/.mozilla/nativemessaginghost

ibnishak commented 4 years ago

Also regarding non English characters in folder name, there is a bug in Tiddlywiki. Please see the corresponding discussion in Google groups.

sepremento commented 4 years ago

Thank you! Changed volume and folder names, everything seems to work fine.

ibnishak / Timimi

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