Migrate from RW 5 to RW 8

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Hello.
I am in a desperate attempt to try to save my website which I built using RW 5 a few years ago. I recently upgraded to OS 10.15 and realised the RW 5 no longer worked, I have purchased RW 8 and it won’t open the file.

I have moved the files to an older computer running OS 10.11 and install RW 5, would it help to make the transitioning easier?

When I open the website file using RW 5, it said: "The document “xxxxxx” uses a plugin that isn’t currently installed. A placeholder plugin will be used instead. Missing plugins: Stacks.
When do RW stores all the files that I have missed during the move?

I am really hoping I don’t need to build the website from scratch, I would appreciate any help. Thank you.

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There’s a help article here that should see you through the upgrade https://help.realmacsoftware.com/en/articles/2201707-upgrading-from-rapidweaver-7-or-earlier

Upgrading from RW5 is covered near the bottom of the article.

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Thank you. I opened the file with RW 8, and it said “Project Theme is Missing”. I found some files under Application Support / Rapideaver / Theme Styles. There is “Couture - Home.rwstyle”, “Couture - (mywebsite).rwstyle” and “Couture.rwtheme”.
Are they the right one? If so, how do I get RW 8 to recognise the files?
Thank you so much.

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Have you checked to see if there’s an updated version of the theme?

The problem with going from RW5 to RW8 is that many of the plugins/themes/stacks might not be compatible now.

I would make sure that you have the latest versions of everything downloaded and installed. And don’t lose the original RW5 project. Make a backup of it and work from that so you don’t lose the original file if things go wrong with the upgrade.

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Ok, I will contact the theme I used is called Couture by Brendan Lee and a stack called TopBox. I will contact them for some information. Is it likely that I will need to pay for a newer version again?
I am also trying to open the file using RW 5 with OS 10.11, it said "The document “xxxxxx” uses a plugin that isn’t currently installed. A placeholder plugin will be used instead. Missing plugins: Stacks.
What should I do?

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Have you purchased the Stacks plugin before? If so, which version?

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I have two stacks. One is S4S-TopBox4.stack, version is 4.2.0 The other one is S4S-ImageCaption.stack, version is 2.3.8.

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There’s the stacks plugin, required to run the stacks you mentioned. It’s confusing, but YourHead makes a plugin(a type of page) that let you build a page with gizmos, also called stacks. The stacks plugin is what the message appears to be about.

Since you were using RW5, you probably are using stacks 3 or maybe even stacks 2.
At the bottom of the stacks 4 YourHead page, there’s a link to the archive and serial number lookup to download the plugin version you need.
http://yourhead.com/

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Thank you. I have that Stacks plugin in my computer, I believe it is a Stacks 2.7.

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