My Bulk upgrade Tiddlywiki single file wikis work flow (A Method to use)

TonyM

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Aug 31, 2019, 11:27:58 PM8/31/19

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Folks,

With 5.1.20 released with a lot of useful features and 5.1.21 pending

I thought I would share my effective Bulk upgrade Tiddlywiki single file wikis - work flow

This assumes you already have backups generated by whatever method you normally have them

Open https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html in a firefox tab
Locate a source wiki on disk and drop in on the above tab
Hit upgrade button
Click "Save upgraded TiddlyWiki file"
Browse to the location of the source file and select it as the save destination, click save
Replace Yes
Return to the tab containing https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html and hit Browser reload of the tab

This is important otherwise you may inadvertently merge more than one wiki and save over an unmerged wiki.

Start again with your next wiki file

With Timimi installed it is possible to have your backups in place and double click to open the upgraded wiki for review (at least once in case there is a problem).

Regards

Tony

A Gloom

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Sep 11, 2019, 12:14:27 AM9/11/19

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Return to the tab containing https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html and hit Browser reload of the tab
This is important otherwise you may inadvertently merge more than one wiki and save over an unmerged wiki.

Would that be an actually merging of 2 wikis in the upgrade wiki or the 2ns overwriting the 1st?

TonyM

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Sep 11, 2019, 1:03:57 AM9/11/19

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A Gloom,

I would experiment to be sure. Of course it depends on the content but I expect the 2nd to win. The merged wiki will be upgraded unless you have edited system tiddlers that overwrite the shadow tiddlers. Similar can be achieved with multiple imports.

A way to filter for only those shadow tiddlers that have been changed/replaced from the system default: Try "[is[shadow]]" in the advanced search "filter" tab.
It might be slightly counterintuitive: there is an implicit "[all[tiddlers]]" at the start of each filter run, so filtering down to those tiddlers that are also shadow tiddlers gives us those "real" tiddlers that overwrite a shadow tiddler.

My key advice is to avoid it or you will inadvertently merge more than one wiki and save over an unmerged wiki. If you find a way to make use of this go ahead.