What's with all the .rw8 files (as folders) showing up?

[thang (David)]

This post might help understand what your seeing:

This document’s file has been changed by another application since you opened or saved it

RapidWeaver project files are actually a special kind of Mac folder called a package. You can actually right-click the project files and select to view the package content. It’s the Mac OS GUI that makes these special folders(directories) look like a single file. External file systems (even the terminal on your Mac) process each individual file (could be hundreds) within the package (folder) independently, so the project file gets “out of sync” and becomes unusable. Many other people have had …