xlxs utilities not working in V22 or V23

Patrick RB

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Jun 8, 2021, 11:49:42 PM6/8/21

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I'm a big fan of Tiddlywiki, fairly new and not really a developer so it's been a long slog to get past the basics!

I've been using XLXS utilities to import chunks of text with dates and sorting them using the timelines plugin. I need to upgrade a wiki from V16 which can't use Timelines. However when upgraded to V22 when xlxs files are imported they show as binary files.

I've tried with V23 - same issue - can anyone help?

I use tiddlywiki with tiddly desktop so don't know how to upgrade manually (have always used the drag and drop updater). There is no previous updater versions, so i can;t try updating the V16 to V20.

kind regards

History Buff

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Jun 10, 2021, 12:21:16 AM6/10/21

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While I don't know the specific, there is a problem with those versions. The problem has been fixed in the 5.1.24 prerelease. I've used it there and confirms it works.

Patrick RB

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Jun 10, 2021, 7:32:26 AM6/10/21

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Thanks. I would like to upgrade and test the pre-release, but there is not automatic updater yet? I'm not sure how to do manually (using tiddlydesktop and windows desktop rather than node.js))

Frédéric Demers

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Jun 10, 2021, 7:52:30 AM6/10/21

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that should work for you: https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/

Patrick RB

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Jun 10, 2021, 8:38:56 AM6/10/21

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How do i manually update an existing wiki? I have a whole bunch of embedded tiddlymaps and it really annoying to have to rebuild them all from an empty wiki. Thanks!

Eric Shulman

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Jun 10, 2021, 8:48:26 AM6/10/21

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On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 5:38:56 AM UTC-7 prbru...@gmail.com wrote:

How do i manually update an existing wiki? I have a whole bunch of embedded tiddlymaps and it really annoying to have to rebuild them all from an empty wiki. Thanks!

https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/upgrade

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Patrick RB

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Jun 10, 2021, 7:23:22 PM6/10/21

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Thanks for the help, but I discovered the importer works when opened with Chrome or Opera, but not Tiddlydesktop - so I guess that's where the problem lies.

Jeremy Ruston

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Jun 11, 2021, 12:06:23 PM6/11/21

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Hi Patrick,

It's easiest to use Chrome or another ordinary browser for the upgrade process. Just save the resulting file over the top of your existing one (having taken backups, of course).

Best wishes

Jeremy

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mauloop

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Jun 11, 2021, 6:39:50 PM6/11/21

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Hi, guys.

I installed the XLSX Utils plugin from 5.1.24-prerelease onto 5.1.23 and it looks like if it is working fine. An alternative to upgrade the whole wiki.