RW7 old themes and addons

@wrowolf, @frOM, @thomasinbkk

Very sorry about this guys—it’s something we’re looking into.

In the mean time, please try this to get up and running:

  1. Open RapidWeaver 6, click on RapidWeaver 6 in the menu bar, hold down option and you should see “Manage Addons…” change to “Reveal Addons Folder”.

  2. Click “Reveal Addons Folder” — it will open a Finder window.

  3. Select everything in that Folder and copy it.

  4. Open RapidWeaver 7, click on RapidWeaver 7 in the menu bar, hold down option and you should see “Manage Addons…” change to “Reveal Addons Folder”.

  5. Click “Reveal Addons Folder” and paste in the Finder window that gets opened.

  6. If you’re asked whether or not you want to “Replace”, click “Replace”.

  7. Restart RapidWeaver 7 — all of your addons and themes should now be available to you in RapidWeaver 7.

Let me know if this works for you.

To help us find the root cause here, please can you go into RW6 and reveal the addons folder again, click on View then Show Path Bar in the Finder and send me the full path that is displayed at the bottom of the Finder window. For example, here’s mine:

Thanks for your patience!

Cheers,
—E

Hi @Machist,

If you could please follow the same steps I mentioned above to get you up and running with RW7, we will continue investigating and get a fix out as soon as possible.

Cheers,
—E

In RapidWeaver 7 the Addons folder doesn’t show. it seems it doesn’t exist.

Click “Reveal Addons Folder” and paste in the Finder window that gets opened.
In RW7 this not opens nothing… Maybe in that reason what frOM says: “In RapidWeaver 7 the Addons folder doesn’t show. it seems it doesn’t exist.”

That’s what I mean : clicking the “Reveal Addons Folder” opens nothing.

And when I look in the “Library/Containers/…” there is no “com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver7” folder.

I copy that “rapidveawer” folder manually here:
~/Library/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver/Data/Library/Application Support/RapidWeaver
Now it works!

@frOM, @Machist, @thomasinbkk, @wrowolf

Right, this has all been very helpful and we now know what the issue is. There will be a new build of RW7 out with a fix soon.

In the mean time, once you have copied your RapidWeaver 6 addons, please open the Finder, click Go in the menu then Go To Folder… and paste the following:

~/Library/Containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver/Data/Library/Application Support/

If you see a folder there called “RapidWeaver”, open it. If not, create a folder named “RapidWeaver”. note: this is NOT the same as the “RapidWeaver 7” folder

Paste your RW6 addons into the “RapidWeaver” folder and restart RW7. You will now have all of your addons from RW6 in RW7.

Thank you again for your help and patience.

—E

Thanks very much. I will wait the new build since I am not in a hurry. RW6 still works very well.

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Thanks Elliot!

cheers,

Wolf

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I have the same problem.

Hi @nealt,

We already know what the issue is here and will get a fix out ASAP. If you don’t want to wait for the fix, you can follow these steps to do the transfer process manually: http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rw7-old-themes-and-addons/7043/17?u=elliotekj

Cheers,
—E

7.0.1 — The importation worked. Thanks a lot.

Excellent, thanks for the confirmation @frOM! :smile:

—E

I also want to reconfirm that it worked. Thanks a lot for sorting this out so fast! :slight_smile:

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Does this workaround also go for themes? I can’t seem to see any of my old themes that I used to use in R6 in R7?

I opened R6 but don’t see a ‘reveal addons’ option, only a ‘manage addons’ option.

same problem here, CRE4MY theme did not open and RW7 defaulted to Alpha on 7.0.01

i ended up reinstalling my theme manually and then it was ok

@Gabrielle, @insideoutskiing

Hey,

This was fixed in the 7.0.1 release (you can double check you’re running the latest version by going to “RapidWeaver 7” then “Check for Updates…”). If you open RW7, click RapidWeaver 7 in the menu bar and then “Copy Addons from RapidWeaver 6” everything should now get transferred. If somehow that doesn’t work for you, the steps listed above should sort out the issue.

Cheers,
—E

P.S.

@Gabrielle: I suspect you only saw “Manage Addons” because you weren’t holding down the option key on your keyboard.

thanks for the quick reply, reinstalling cre4my seems to have solved it.

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@ElliotEKJ thanks for that, sorry I missed the bit where it said we had to hold down option, doh!
I’m a bit confused. I’m already running 7.0.1. If I go to reveal R7 addons folder I see a column with 2 Rapidweavers in it, one is just Rapidweaver and one is Rapidweaver 7 but it’s the one above Rapidweaver 7 that’s highlighted. Is that correct?

I just wanted to check to see if my themes ARE already in there and I’m just not looking in the right spot in the software itself to find the theme, before I start copying and pasting.

The path is gaby/library/containers/com.realmacsoftware.rapidweaver/Data/Library/application support/rapidweaver (NOT rapidweaver 7 which is what I would expect it to be).

Many thanks for the help.