It has to be a bug! I mentioned it twice already. I'm sure Mohammad will fix it once he realises the problem exists..
Best wishes TT On Thursday, 2 July 2020 01:10:54 UTC+2, Jake wrote: > > Yeah, I know, I read this: "Note: This will overwrite the existing > fileds!" but I thought it would be the case only if the field I'm adding to > the selected batch already exists in some of those tiddlers, but not the > main text field! > > So, my questions are: > 1. Why does that "awesome feature" exist? > 2. Why it erases only the main text field then? All the other fields > remain intact. > 3. Why in the warning note it is not mentioned explicitly? "Your MAIN TEXT > FIELD WILL BE DELETED". It is not "overwritten". I did not put another > value into it and TC didn't place anything instead, it just deleted it. So > - say that in a warning! > > and the main one: > 4. How to bypass that? How to add a new field to a batch of tiddlers > WITHOUT erasing the WHOLE main content of those tiddlers? > > I knew smth like that could happen, so backed up and no actual harm's > done, but still that was quite a surprise... > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/897a5961-be7e-46a8-bfa4-c46b421f4e8fo%40googlegroups.com.
