The 3 curly braces have now become 3 back ticks (```).
Three curly braces are used to interpret a filter and create a list, and so
create an error in your situation.
If you do the standard upgrade, then all your tiddlers will be marked as tw
classic. They may not look right, but they won't break things either. Then
over time, as you need the tiddlers, you can fix them and bring them up to
TW5 standards.
-- Mark
On Friday, October 5, 2018 at 11:33:23 PM UTC-7, Alexander Kempshall wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I've been a long time user of Tiddlywiki possibly for the past 10 to 12
> years.
>
> I've done a few upgrades over time, but none as major as the upgrade to
> TW5. I think I'm currently on 2.6.6 using FireFox 60.2.2esr and they don't
> seem to get on well together.
>
> I thought I might be able to do an automatic upgrade. When I press the
> upgrade button in backstage It tells me that "There was a problem saving
> the backup file" when I try to save expliticly from the option in backstage
> it tells me that
>
> It's not possible to save changes. Possible reasons include:
>> - your browser doesn't support saving (Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari
>> and Opera all work if properly configured)
>> - the pathname to your TiddlyWiki file contains illegal characters
>> - the TiddlyWiki HTML file has been moved or renamed
>>
>
>
> I've presumed this is because my version of FireFox is > 57.
>
> So, I've downloaded and installed empty.html and the plugin
> savetiddlers-master.zip. Changed the Story View from Classic to Zoomin. I
> think I've also set up a side menu.
>
> In the past in the text of a tiddler I would add something like this
>
> {{{
> struct employee
> {
> char name[80];
> int age;
> float wage;
> } emp;
>
> struct employee *p = &emp;
>
> emp.wage = 123.23;
> p->wage = 123.23;
> }}}
>
> and would get something like this
>
> struct employee
>> {
>> char name[80];
>> int age;
>> float wage;
>> } emp;
>>
>> struct employee *p = &emp;
>>
>> emp.wage = 123.23;
>> p->wage = 123.23;
>>
>>
>
> If I try this in TW5 I get the message "Filter error: Missing [ in filter
> expression"
>
> Do I have to forget all the formatting codes from previous versions of
> Tiddlywiki? Or have I lost the plot completely?
>
> Alex
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