upgade fails on os x

[Bob Jansen]

when I try to use the upgrade function, either online or locally, it immediately fails when I drag the tiddlywiki file on to it.

error message "can't find varialble FileReader"

Screen grab attached

bobj

[PMario]

On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 3:02:34 AM UTC+2, Bob Jansen wrote:

when I try to use the upgrade function, either online or locally, it immediately fails when I drag the tiddlywiki file on to it.

Did you try to drag a TWclassic file there? ... it won't work. It's for upgrading TW5 versions.
-m

[Eric Shulman]

You *can* drop a TWClassic file onto the tiddlywiki.com/upgrade function (or any other TW5 document)... and it imports the tiddlers from the dropped TWC into the new TW5.  I tried this with some TW2.8.x files and it worked just fine.  I was able to import the tiddlers from the TWC document, save/download the results, and then open the local copy.

I think the clue to the problem is the error message: "can't find variable: FileReader".

FileReader is a standard HTML5 javascript object, defined by the browser.  However, if you are using an older browser that pre-dates HTML5 support, that object won't exist, resulting in the error that was shown.

So.. the question is: what browser (and what version) was used to attempt the upgrade?

enjoy,

-e

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[Dr. Bob jansen]

Eric,

The browser is the latest safari on os x, 10.6.8, which does support html5. As to version of TW, I am not sure how to tell that from my file.

Bobj

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[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Bob

The browser is the latest safari on os x, 10.6.8, which does support html5.

What is the version number reported by the "About" menu in Safari? I think the problem is that OS X 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) is now pretty old (5 years old to be precise), and doesn't get the latest updates of Safari.

According to this site, the first version of Safari to support the FileReader was 6.1, which I seem to remember came with OS X Lion:

http://caniuse.com/#feat=filereader

 

As to version of TW, I am not sure how to tell that from my file.

Click the control panel icon in the sidebar; the TiddlyWiki version number is listed at on the first tab under Info/Basics.

Best wishes

Jeremy

 

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[Dr Bob Jansen (in Korea)]

Jeremy,

Safari is 5.1.10
TW is 5.0.6-beta

So, if the problem is afari, how can I upgrade without upgrading my OS? I need to stay with 10.6.8 as we use iMovie6 all the time which won't run on mavericks (and no, we can't upgrade iMovie as later versions do not support iMovie projects on a project by project basis, only using their stupid event structure).

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[Jeremy Ruston]

Hi Bob

So, if the problem is afari, how can I upgrade without upgrading my OS?

You can't upgrade Safari for OS X independently of the main OS. You need to upgrade to a new version of OS X to get a newer version of Safari.

Is there anything stopping you running Chrome or Firefox?

 

I need to stay with 10.6.8 as we use iMovie6 all the time which won't run on mavericks (and no, we can't upgrade iMovie as later versions do not support iMovie projects on a project by project basis, only using their stupid event structure).

Funnily enough I recently installed iMovie HD 6.0.3 on a OS X Mavericks machine and it appears to work OK.

Best wishes

Jeremy.