Thanks to Ton Gerner for suggesting an approach: The following was once given in this group by Eric Shulman from TiddlyTools. Since you make a backup, it is save to try.
If you are having problems using the built-in backstage "upgrade" process, here's a simple manual procedure that you can use: 1. Download the latest empty.zip from http://www.TiddlyWiki.com<http://www.tiddlywiki.com/> and extract a copy of empty.html 2. Load your existing TW document into the browser 3. Invoke "save changes" to create a backup copy of the current document 4. Replace the existing TW document's file on disk with a copy of the latest empty.html 5. Invoke "save changes" again 6. Reload your document That worked for me using the latest "classic" version I downloaded from http://classic.tiddlywiki.com/ (2.8.1 I think). I had some problems with the v5 empty.html. I also had issues with Google Chrome due to Java plugin security (jre7u55), it worked better for me in FireFox. I guess I am on the latest version of the Classic tiddlywiki which is solving my immediate issues. Is there a recommended upgrade path to TW5 where I want to display custom fields? I found that my field data is preserved when I view a Tiddler in an upgraded TW5 file, but it does not display by default, and when adding new Tiddlers I have to manually add each of my custom fields. On Friday, April 25, 2014 1:05:26 PM UTC-4, Brian Laskey wrote: > > I have an older "classic" TiddlyWiki where I have been maintaining some > data for past several years, when I first started I created some custom > tiddler fields. > > After some delay I am getting different errors trying to use the wiki in > most modern browsers (Win 7, FF 28.0, IE 11, Chrome 34). Basically I can > read the file, but saving updates, or trying to use the core upgrade > feature are now failing. I am getting messages that the file has been saved > incorrectly. I don't want to lose all my data. > > Is there an upgrade path I can take that 1) Preserves my tiddlers with > custom field values 2) Preserve my ViewTemplate and 3) Preserve my tag data? > > I have tried the online upgrade, but it didn't preserve the fields. Do I > want to upgrade to try to resolve the browser errors? Is it best to try to > get to TW5 in anticipation that I don't want to be left even further behind > and unable to upgrade data? > > Are there ways to export the data from a wiki in another format, like a > CSV type file for backup purposes? > > Thank you > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
