Tinderbox 11 update

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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I see version 11 is out. I cannot find where/how to download the update.

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The latest version is always available at Tinderbox: Downloads or at Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes

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Thank you.

I went to the website and clicked on this: “To update, simply download and install the latest Tinderbox demo, and it will unlock itself automatically.”

I now have Tinderbox 10 and Tinderbox 11 in my applications folder. I opened 11 and it’s empty. I am used to updates that update the existing app, retaining all my files and work. I am not sure how to proceed with this type.

Please advise. TIA

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This is as expected. Major versions of the app, e.g. v8 vs. v7, have always been discrete installs. If you no longer need v10, you can delete it. Files don’t live in the app so remain wherever you stored them.

Depending on your OS settings, Tinderbox may open the TBX file open when last used but that is the OS and not the app doing that. On major version change the apps ‘recently used’ file list (‘MRU’) is emptied†. Simply open your TBXs via the app’s file menu or drag/drop and the MRU list will quickly re-populate.

So no error here. The app is working as expected by Tinderbox users even if other apps may operate differently. :slight_smile:

†. For some technical (security?) reason it is not possible for vN+1 to read vN’s MRU list.

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But other apps do NOT operate differently.

Your Tinderbox documents are stored in files, on your disk drive. That’s why they’re called documents. Just like your photos, your Microsoft Word® files, and everything else.

When a new version of an application is installed with a new name, the operating system doesn’t reopen documents that were open when you last Quit the old version. In some cases, that’s not what you want! So, it’s up to you.

This is completely standard behavior, common across all macOS applications for many decades.

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Thank you for clarification.

My problem is I don’t know how to “get” my Tinderbox work/files into version 11.. or how to tell 11 where to find them?? (if I am understanding you correctly).

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Exactly as it is done in any other Macintosh application.

File ▸ Open… the documents, or

Drag the document onto the application icon in the dock, or

Drag the document onto the application in Finder

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To clarify again, the documents are not ‘in’ the app. They are simply documents of file extension ‘.tbx’ stored anywhere in accessible parts of your drive.

Tinderbox is not a single document app … I’ve well over 500 TBXs on my system. Sone people have just one, but that is the user’s choice, not the app’s.

Tinderbox documents will have a ‘.tbx’ file extension. Searching your Mac for all files with a ‘.tbx’ file extension should show you where your TBXs are.

The File ▸ Open Recent simple lists the TBXs you have opened most recently. IIRC the list is limited to the most recent 30 files. But it is not a file/location store, unless you have <30 TBXs in total on your entire system (IIRC that that is the max size of that list, after which the oldest drops off the bottom of the list).