RapidWeaver & importing webpages
Sunday 27 February 2011
RapidWeaver is great software, but it has always been let down by its import options, that is it’s not straightforward to import an existing website.
I discovered something today, that maybe a few of you out there must already know, but until now has eluded me.
I noticed in the current viewable version of my website I had an Apple section, yet in my current RapidWeaver .rwsw I hadn’t, so there was a mis-sync, which probably came about when I started to use Dropbox to sync the RapidWeaver files over my computers.
Sure enough, I looked in File > Open Recent and opened a previous version and there it was in the WEBPAGES sidebar. As I had two versions open on my iMac, I just dragged the whole Apple section across, and as I laid it over the WEBPAGES sidebar in the working version of RapidWeaver, the folder icon changed to include the green +, which meant I was adding a copy.
I dropped it into the right position, and bingo that was that. I checked in Preview, saved the document and published it.
PS I am using version 4 still, waiting for the bugs to go out of 5.
I discovered something today, that maybe a few of you out there must already know, but until now has eluded me.
I noticed in the current viewable version of my website I had an Apple section, yet in my current RapidWeaver .rwsw I hadn’t, so there was a mis-sync, which probably came about when I started to use Dropbox to sync the RapidWeaver files over my computers.
Sure enough, I looked in File > Open Recent and opened a previous version and there it was in the WEBPAGES sidebar. As I had two versions open on my iMac, I just dragged the whole Apple section across, and as I laid it over the WEBPAGES sidebar in the working version of RapidWeaver, the folder icon changed to include the green +, which meant I was adding a copy.
I dropped it into the right position, and bingo that was that. I checked in Preview, saved the document and published it.
PS I am using version 4 still, waiting for the bugs to go out of 5.