# Upgrade to 5.4 from 6 - is possible? **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [July 15, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316 "2015-07-15T10:02:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Furry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@Furry](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Furry)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/1 "2015-07-15T10:02:44Z")
As RW 6 is basically unusable on my machine - tabbing between it and other apps is painfully slow, constant beach balling, losing focus - can anyone suggest a way to get my files back to version 5 or is it a rebuild from scratch? ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/2 "2015-07-15T10:14:34Z")
There’s no way to downgrade files, you’d need to copy and paste the content from version 6 over to a new document in 5.x. However, I’m more keen that we get version 6 working well for you. Can you post a video of the issues you’re seeing? Also, it sounds like you might be running low on memory, what machine are you running it on? Thanks, Dan ---
**Author:** ![Furry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@Furry](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Furry)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/3 "2015-07-15T10:22:48Z")
Hi Dan Well - 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5 with 16 gig of Ram - which runs all my other stuff well enough - Xcode / Creative suite etc - heck, even the new Photoshop runs well (shock) Activity monitor shows over 8 gig of free ram while running Firefox / RW / Numbers / Transit The main issue is constant beach balling when moving between pages and if I swap out to another app, another round of beaching when swapping back. Running OSX 10.10.4 - only significant background tasks are Dropbox and Time Machine Happy to help, try stuff out - I really want to stay with RW - its simply the best (or will be again ) ---
**Author:** ![dan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dan/32/28516_2.png) [@dan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/4 "2015-07-15T10:27:57Z")
The beach balling might be down to a third party plugin issue… how does RW6 perform with more basic sites for you? ---
**Author:** ![Furry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@Furry](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Furry)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2015, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/5 "2015-07-15T10:43:02Z")
Its fine with smaller projects - in fact what I’m having to do is break the project into smaller chunks and paste them in when ready, its a pain but swapping between apps is no longer a problem. That will teach me to get ambitious 😄 ---
**Author:** ![nikf](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/nikf/32/10_2.png) [@nikf](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/nikf)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 1:38pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/6 "2015-07-16T13:38:35Z")
Do you have Auto Save turned on? If not, turning that off may prevent so slow-downs. We’ve made a number of changes to auto-save behaviour in recent updates, so make sure you’re on 6.2.3 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Furry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e19adc/32.png) [@Furry](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Furry)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/upgrade-to-5-4-from-6-is-possible/316/7 "2015-07-16T15:01:39Z")
Hi - Auto save and logging are turned off - it really does seem to be related to the size of the project file