# Where am I? Help me get back up and running please

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/where-am-i-help-me-get-back-up-and-running-please/3782>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [November 6, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/where-am-i-help-me-get-back-up-and-running-please/3782 "2015-11-06T01:06:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![mystweave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mystweave](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/mystweave)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/where-am-i-help-me-get-back-up-and-running-please/3782/1 "2015-11-06T01:06:22Z")

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Hello, it’s been several months since I’ve updated my website, today I thought was the day I would do it… and of coarse my rapidweaver 5 wont even launch and I see there is now RW 6 and again looks like i’ll have to pay more money and invest much time navigating my way again.

I don’t want to sound like I’m complaining, guess it’s frustrating but I understand things can’t stay the same forever 🙂

Anyways my current goal is - make some small updates to my RW5 site without spending any money at this time if possible.

My question- where do I start when I can’t even launch RW and have little to memory of what plugins I have etc, It’s taken me quite a while just to work out I most likely have RW5 as I couldn’t even remember that.

my system is 10.10.5

Any tips advice would be great, thanks in advance if always had great support here and is much appreciated 🙂

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**Author:** ![EricW](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ericw/32/217_2.png) [@EricW](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/EricW)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2015, 7:31am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/where-am-i-help-me-get-back-up-and-running-please/3782/2 "2015-11-06T07:31:20Z")

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It could be that your version 5 is outdated, my suggestion would be you upgrade to the latest release first. You can download it here:

[http://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/upgrade/](http://realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/upgrade/)

Rename your old Rapidwever first, and install using the new one. It might be needed to re-enter the serail, but I am not sure. After that, you are running the latest supported version 5, don’t forgot to upgrade your stacks/plug-ins after this as software has dependencies…

Hope this helps, good luck 😉