[TW5] I can't open my wiki because of an infinite loop

Omit

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Jan 14, 2016, 6:42:14 PM1/14/16

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Hi,

I did something very stupid: I tagged "Tiddler A" with "Tiddler B", and I tagged "Tiddler B" with "Tiddler A".

So the table of contents on the right becomes infinite, and my browser crashes.

Unfortunately, the wiki is encrypted so I cannot modify the source code to remove one of the tags.

I tried the firefox javascript debugger with no success.

I am afraid that my information is lost. Is there any way to save it?

Cheers

Omit

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Jan 14, 2016, 6:56:38 PM1/14/16

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OK, sorry for the useless noise! I fixed my problem by importing the problematic tiddlywiki file to a new other tiddlywiki, and I imported everything except "Tiddler B".

Eric Shulman

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Jan 14, 2016, 7:08:06 PM1/14/16

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If you modified the TableOfContents shadow tiddler (e.g., to use your own "root tag"), then you might be able to bypass the problem by using Safe Mode (http://tiddlywiki.com/#SafeMode) to load the file with the default shadow TableOfContents, so that TiddlerA and TiddlerB won't be in the tree, avoiding the infinite recursion.

Another method that might work:

First, drop the 'broken' document on a fresh empty.html and import all tiddlers except for TiddlerB. Next, edit TiddlerA and remove the tag for TiddlerB. Then, you can safely import TiddlerB without it causing the infinite recursion.