Tinderbox 10 is here

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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Just a quick note: Tinderbox 10 is now available.

https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/

https://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Order.html

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Yayyy!!!

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aTbRef10, a new baselined site, will be up shortly.

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The v10.0.0 release page on the Eastgate site: Tinderbox: Tinderbox 10

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Excellent news - gaudeamus igitur, Modus Gaudius est natus!

(But just as a minor heads-up, the third paragraph on the Tinderbox 10 web page (Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes) still refers to 9.7:

Tinderbox 9.7 will be your personal information assistant.

HtH)

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Thanks! Fixed.

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Very pleasant surprise!

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We discussed the updates in yesterday’s meetup: Tinderbox Meetup Sunday 13 Jul., 2024: Tinderbox 10 Review, Explode, and Each Line Stream Parsing.

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Unexpectedly amazing, and resolves some issues I’d been suffering. Congratulations and thanks all round, @eastgate and @mwra!

(and marginally-related congratulations to Dr @satikusala!)

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thanks for the update - Tinderbox keeps getting better and more amazing and the meetups and tutorials really help!

A minor question - is there a way to transfer the list of recently opened files from tinderbox 9 to 10?

thanks, Frederick

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I’ve found this to be a blessing more than a challenge.

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Officially: nope!

Unofficially — risky, and dependent on which macOS you have installed:

  1. In Finder, choose Go ▸ Go To Folder…

  2. Go to ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.sharedfilelist

  3. The old file of Recently Opened files is named com.eastgate.tinderbox-9.sfl3

  4. The new file is named com.eastgate.tinderbox-10.sfl3

Again: this is not necessarily a good idea. As @DaveM suggested, cleaning this list every couple of years is not a bad thing, and the list will rebuild itself in a jiffy.

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thank you! I’ll take a closer look at what I should do.

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I would take a screenshot (Cmd-Shift-4) of the Recent Files Menu while in Tbx 9, and re-locate those project files in the Finder.

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It’s a wonderful piece of software. But is the launch of TBX 10 time for a name change? There is another app with a similar name, and it’s not going anywhere.

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Which app would that be?

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Eastgate has produced Tinderbox for over 20 years. Why should it change the name? Should Apple Inc. change its name because some people think Apples are fruit?

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Well, there’s Tinder. But Tinder is newer than Tinderbox, it’s not an exact match, and the lines of business are unlikely to cause confusion.

There’s Tinderbox, the US mall-store tobacconists. (Are they still around?). I think they still own the domain. Again, unlikely to cause confusion.

There used to be a Tinderbox package of Illustrator plugins. OK: more potential confusion than cigars, but not a lot.

There’s a Tinderbox Kitchen in Flagstaff. Who knew?

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In my profession in Scotland, the name is a barrier to uptake. There is nothing wrong with getting out into the mainstream when you have something so good to sell. But small is beautiful, I suppose.

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OK, but what is the competitor in Scotland and why is it a barrier? It would help the community if you were a little more forthcoming.

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