Copying TW customization and configuration

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Normand Duchesne

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Jan 28, 2024, 4:23:01 PMJan 28
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I am running TW 5.2.2. on nodejs and created a new (docker) TW nodes service running 5.3.3.  I copied the tiddlers from the original env. to the new one without issues but I would like to also copy all the customizations I did in the 5.2.2 to the new one.  I searched this group and the web unsuccessfully.  Any one could help?

Thanks.


Normand Duchesne



scott....@gmail.com

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Jan 28, 2024, 11:03:05 PMJan 28
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Note that most of the tiddlywiki discussion these days takes place on https://talk.tiddlywiki.org.

My technique would be to save a copy of your wiki as a single-file wiki, use the upgrade page at https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade to create an updated wiki, and then use the TW-node `--load` to load this into your existing or (probably safer) a new node wiki. 

```text
tiddlywiki path/to/new/wiki --init server
tiddlywiki path/to/new/wiki --load path/to/upgrade.htm
tiddlywiki path/to/new/wiki --listen port=6789
```

duche...@gmail.com

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Jan 29, 2024, 2:58:41 PMJan 29
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Thank you Scott, and feel free to move this discussion to  https://talk.tiddlywiki.org if it's better there.

Here is what I did:
  1. Converted my nodejs wiki to a single file; (I tried the two methods shown at https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Generating%2520Static%2520Sites%2520with%2520TiddlyWiki.html).  
  2. Converted this single file to 5.3.3 using https://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.
  3. Loaded the upgrade file into my new 5.3.3 nodejs Tiddlywiki with: /usr/local/bin/tiddlywiki mywiki --load mywiki/upgrade.html
Everything worked fine but the end result is that my 602 tiddlers are now merged into a single one in my new wiki.  I thought the load process would split the single file into different tiddlers but this is not the case.  

Am I doing something wrong or impossible?

Thank again.

Normand.

scott....@gmail.com

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Jan 29, 2024, 4:36:44 PMJan 29
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I copied this to a talk.tiddlywiki discussion at https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/copying-tw-customization-and-configuration/9009.

Let's move the conversation over there.

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