Missing Images After Upgrade to Rapidweaver 8

[isaiah (Isaiah Carew)]

I’ve not heard this specific issue before. However, there was a recent bug in RW 7 that could be responsible. This post gives details about when the bug happens and how to work around it:

Lost images when saving project after editing

The bug was identified. And Realmac confirmed they could reproduce it. You should contact Realmac support to ask when they might fix this in RapidWeaver 7. Unfortunately the bug is related to saving duplicates of your project file. So in a horrible irony the fact that you keep losing data is encouraging you to do the very thing that is likely triggering the bug and… making you lose more data. The workaround that I suggested for others is very simple and seems to be very effe…

But… and this is more detailed analysis, read if you like solving technical riddles like this one…

You’ve noticed the problem at a really interesting point in time because RapidWeaver 8 makes a COPY of the RapidWeaver 7 project when you upgrade. This means that the RW7 project still exists.

So I have two big questions:

1. Does the RW7 project file still have the images?
   If the answer is NO, then it is almost certainly the bug I posted about above. But if the answer is YES – the images are still there – then it means the images were lost during the migration which is indeed unique.

2. If you have a RW7 project that still has images, and you open that project in RW8 does the project file lose images again?

If the answer is YES you have RW7 images and YES they get deleted each time, then I would very much like to see this project file to have a look at it.