Hi John

I'd suggest installing TiddlyFox, if you haven't already.

> won't follow links in save as dialogue,  won't move up/down folder
structure to save in particular location

That sounds a bit strange. Do the cancel and open buttons still work?

> opens in new skin, old standard skin gone.

As it says on tiddlywiki.com, TW5 is not fully backwards compatible with
TWC. Themes and plugins for TWC don't work in TW5.

Best wishes

Jeremy



On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:02 AM, packetlevel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks so much for the reply -
> "You should be able to open a new, empty TW5 and then drag-and-drop an
> existing TWC file, which will copy the tiddlers into the new file" - yes,
> and after about 5 min of nothing and FF 27 completely locking up I force
> quit it. The second time, with FF16 (last one that works with tiddlysnip),
> another 5 min with no apparent action, my stuff appeared in the previous
> original skin. However have been unable to save and have it open as an html
> file.
>
> To backtrack just a bit to try to provide useful info about my results so
> far:
> mid 2011 MB pro, OSX 10.8.5
> Existing TWC 2.8.1
>
> Using FF21 (the last one that does not kill TS for my FF16):
> - TW5 download button does not work
> - go to http://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html,  save empty.html file - it
> opens as a text file no matter what
> -  online converter does not work - no activity
> - rt click on url http://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html, save, open saved
> empty file, drop in TWC, FF paralyzed for 5 min.
> - - comes up with content in new skin
> - - won't local save, rt click
> - - -  won't follow links in save as dialogue,  won't move up/down folder
> structure to save in particular location
> - - -  save as foo.html.part
> - - - some new skin, old standard skin gone.
> - - - have not explored the saved file much - don't know how much of the
> previous file is there or correct.
>
> Safari:
> - online upgrade doesn't work
> - rt click on url http://tiddlywiki.com/empty.html, save, open saved
> empty, drop in TWC
> - - safara paralyzed 5 min
> - - comes up with content in new skin
> - - won't local save, rt click, save as 'unknown'
> - - -  won't follow links in save as dialogue,  won't move up/down folder
> structure to save in particular location
> - - -  saved as foo.html
> - - - opens in new skin, old standard skin gone.
> - - - have not explored the saved file much - don't know how much of the
> previous file is there or correct.
>
> Hope this helps -
> As I'm teaching full time and a half, not much time for beta testing, but
> will forward any info I have.
>
> Feature request: TW5 incorporate Tiddlysnip; the single most useful
> feature about tiddlywikis I have found over the last 6 years.
>
> Best regards,
> John Gonder
> Las Positas College Cisco Networking Academy
> Computer Networking Technologies
> [email protected]
> http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/jgonder
> twitter: @packetlevel
> Sine scientia ars nihil est, sine ars scientia nihil est
>
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