Hi, after I have updated RW to Version 7.3 I am having lots of issues eg: RW takes ages to open a project, saving, preview is the worst and also crashes all the time.
does anyone have same issues or only me? any solutions? Thanks
Different people have different problems. Some people donât have problems at all (or so they say). I my case, projects open much faster than in previous versions, but the time to switch from âeditâ to âpreviewâ significantly increased â to about 10-15 seconds â even if I donât change anything on the page. The time for saving also increased in general, but it depends to some extent on the complexity of a page and the amount of changes.
@Rovertek Glad to hear you are not facing my issues 
Iâm using Version 7.2 (18443b) and it is by far the most stable Iâve had in 7. Iâm so happy with it Iâm am terribly afraid to move on to newer versions. I was having crash after crash but with this particular beta I have not had a single one. But as Rovertek says⌠different versions work differently for different people and seemingly different hardware and perhaps even on different days⌠Ha!
@1611mac thanks, maybe I should downgrade it to 7.2
This problem developed after I downloaded 7.3 and Iâm pulling my hair out because I could lose my position in an important local community organization because I cannot get their website to publish. It is a gorgeous website for a political client and the opposition has their website up and running and I cannot publish. I called Network Solutions, the hosting company, and they are doing everything to help, but the FTP connection is good because they tested it there. They thought it might be with my hardware, so I called Charter Cable and they came out and gave me (free of charge) a brand new modem and brand new cable.
The first time I tried to publish with the new equipment, it did publish (thank heavens) so it now is up â however, the client is asking me to make very important changes and I cannot make them because I cannot republish. I tried going directly to Filezilla and dragging the files across, but when I do that, I check to see if the changes have published and they have not! I now am trying to publish to my desktop, but that does not seem to be working, either. I have tried every combination of host names given to me by the host, but they do not work. The error message I get (which I click on the blue dot with the âiâ in it) sometimes says: âCouldnât sign in to your FTP server.â And sometimes it says âFailure when receiving data from the peer.â Except Network Solutions says the problem is not on their end and I believe them. I am at my witâs end. It is not Charter Communications (now Spectrum). They gave me all new equipment and the tech checked it out â came to the house. It DID publish ONCE with the tech here, and I did not change ANYTHING after he left (except I made a very few minor edits to the site â minor for me, but major for the client!). And it has NOT published since he left. I called Charter also and they say everything is working normally. I have published six good websites before using RW6 and RW5, but RW7 has given me these awful problems and it looks like I may lose the client as this is a real political battle here and they MUST HAVE A WEBSITE THAT IS RESPONSIVE. PLEASE PLEASE HELP ASAP!!! (No, it is NOT a commercial client â it is a volunteer job, but they are a client nontheless⌠they are a nonprofit and Iâm donating my time to them. But itâs still urgent and very important.) P.S. I did try to download the 7.3 upgrade . . .Maybe that caused it. I cannot find the upgrade on my computer at this point. Was going to try to re-load it, or reload the original software. It is possible that the software might have been running when I downloaded the upgrade, but I donât think it was (if it was, it might have been hidden under a Photoshop document or something.)
PULLING MY HAIR OUT!!! Please!!! Not even certain, at this point, how to get a copy of the original software if I trash the application that I have (7.0 â and, who knows? Maybe 7.3 if itâs on this computer at all. It does not come up when I do a search for it.)
You can download previous versions of RW7 here: https://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/releasenotes/
Maybe try reverting to RW 7.2.2? 7.3 seemed to create FTP problems for some users. Just trash your 7.3 version and put 7.2.2 in your applications folder. Might be good to re-start your Mac as well.
Also, check what version of RW you are actually using by clicking on âAbout Rapidweaverâ in the top menu under âRapidweaver 7â and make sure you are actually using 7.2.2
Thank you, thang (David)⌠I will try that now.
I just checked the software (BEFORE trashing it) to see whether, in fact, it was 7.3. And â YEP! It is!
OMG! I hope I can do this right.
I went to my applications folder and the application for Rapidweaver just says RapidWeaver7 on it. There is no Rapidweaver folder. If I trash the RapidWeaver application (that does not say .3 in the name of it) will the website I created with it still open in 2.2? Sometimes more recent software will NOT be able to be opened in older software. I have a large website with lots of pretty pictures on it and it took me about 6 weeks, 10 hours a day, or so, doing nothing else but this, to create. I donât want to lose the site when I replace the application â or not be able to call it up. Is there anything I can do to guarantee that doesnât happen? I have the actual site stored in a file named for the political organization (not named âRapidWeaver Projectsâ but RW still knows where to find its websites, even so. I know that usually you can trash an application and the files will remain, but I have had nothing but trouble from this site. It did publish perfectly under 7.0 (or a previous version that I downloaded several months ago.)
You can find the version of RW by clicking once (highligting) RW7.app and clicking on âget Infoâ in the âFileâ menu in the Finder window.
You will not have any problems opening up your existing project file(s) in RW 7.2.2
That being said always good to back up your projects just in case.
Once your project is open in RW 7.2.2 you probably will want to ârepublish all filesâ, but first test your publishing credentials in RW and make sure that all your info is correct and working. You can use 'browse" to find your upload folder on your hostâs server.
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Maybe Iâll just move the application (7.3) to the trash, but not empty the trash. I could reclaim it later if I had to open the website. If I had to re-create the website, at least I would have prototype pages to use as models. Or, possibly I could create the home page and then move over each individual page from one site to another. â Ooops. I see Iâm getting a helpful hint at right saying I should consolidate my replies. So sorry! But I did not think of these things until it sunk in that Iâm going to have to do this and could lose my precious site. The brain always works better after Iâve pressed âsend.â Darn!
You can always re-download 7.3 if needed, or let RW update it, but yes you can also leave it in the trash.
Like i said, make back-ups of your project files just in case, but it is most unlikely that anything untoward will occur.
Now take a deep breath, relax and proceed. 
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Thanks, DavidâŚIâm not sure what this line means. Iâm publishing to Filezilla and have no problem findint the site there. But my host is Network Solutions. NS uses FZ as their publishing vehicle (sorry, Iâm not techie enough to know the proper names for things. I just figure it out as I go with RW and do it. )
THANK YOU!!! ha, ha. Taking a deep breath! And proceeding now!
OK - thought you were publishing with RW. RW can publish your site as well, and it works fine for most people. It will work for any host as will any other FTP client providing your publishing credentials for your host are correct.
So if you can export your site locally and have had no problems with using FileZilla to publish to your host then all should be well. You can also try using RW 7.2.2 to publish. The âbrowseâ button in RWâs publishing window just allows you to locate your upload folder on your server. Enter your credentials and try âtestâ.
Otherwise if youâre happy using FileZilla, thatâs fine as well.
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Iâm not sure I understood you correctly . . . sometimes I overthink things. Let me try to clarify (if I donât confuse you more with my amateur lingo). Before I downloaded 7.3 I was publishing a prototype version of the site so that the board of directors could review and change, etc. I did this by using the RW âPublishing Windowâ and just clicking âPublish.â Maybe that is what you mean when you say âpublishing with RW.â I do see the âbrowseâ option next to the Path Window. (and when I click it I get this: Failure when receiving data from the peer.) I was NOT able (so far) to publish to my desk top in order to drag the published file into Filezilla. But when I went into Filezilla I COULD SEE THE FILES in my own computer, locate the website (MalibuOpenSpace.org) and drag the edited pages across Filezillaâs chart into the published side with the hope of replacing the old page with the new page. As I said, that did NOT work when I went online to check to see whether it had published. You said, "if you can export your site locally . . . " But I tried that and I was not able to do that the first time I tried. I was just up for a cup of coffee and âto take my deep breathâ (ha, ha), when I sat down and found this new note (and I"m SOOOO grateful for your help!). It sounds as though you think my server has a publishing (uh â what do I call it? vehicle? engine? facility?) similar to Filezilla but owned by the host. I do not think they do. Their clients all use Filezilla, as far as I can tell. I am not experienced enough at the publishing end of this (total of about 10 websites so far, but the first ones were with iWeb, which then folded, so I learned RW when that happened) to know if Iâm âhappyâ with FZ. But Iâm always very happy when a site actually publishes â a feat which seems to be a complete miracle to me! Love that RWâs 3rd party software makes such gorgeous sites. Okay. Iâm not ready to do this. Thank you so much for helping! Technology is just so incredible! (The âask for help and you get it asapâ part of it. Here goes.)
NOW ready to do this, not âNot readyâ . . .
One more thing: I did not know that RW had a âpublisherâ such as Filezilla. If it does, and if itâs easier to use, I should try it. You seemed to indicate that I would not need a host company (such as Network Solutions) to use the RW publisher. . . or maybe I misunderstood. I am in Malibu, California. RapidWeaver, as I understand it, is a British company and is pretty much located in England. So, I wonder about compatibility. Iâve never heard of any other publishers except for Filezilla. Thought that was the standard vehicle. Really going now â but wanted to save that thought or question or info/assumption or whatever it was. 
OK - thatâs a lot of stuff to reply to. I think youâre overthinking/analyzing and maybe further confusing yourself.
Btw, Iâm near downtown LA and also use Spectrum. Donât be worried about RMS being located in the UK - all this stuff works the same anywhere in the world.
I think you would benefit greatly by checking the Introductory RW Videos made by RMS:
Particularly this one on publishing:
I think this will answer a lot of your questions. If you have further questions after youâve watched the video(s), perhaps we can take it from there?
There are many 3rd party FTP apps out there for Mac, including Transmit, Forklift, Yummy FTP, Fetch, etc. They all will work, and people have their favorites.
RW has itâs own publishing engine as well which you will learn about in the video.
You donât âneedâ a hosting company to publish. You need a hosting account to publish your files to.
There are several methods you can use:
- RWâs own publishing tool
- A third party FTP app
- or usually you can publish from your hosting accountâs file manager which i think is usually located in C-Panel.
For the second two options you have to export your project locally and then upload the files to your hosting account.
OK - please watch the video!! 
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why donât you export the site to a folder on your computer and then upload with cyberduck or filezilla to your server? iâve been doing that for a long time. now with version #7.x i donât seem to have the problem any longer!
greetings, tomas