Looks like the imported tiddlywiki HTML only contains one $:/isEncrypted tiddler. I think the imported tiddlywiki is a wrong one.
I see from this capture there is plenty of room to contrinue scrolling, Can you see anything further down the screen. The main desire would be to get to the advanced search and look at overwitten system tiddlers or config tiddlers you can reverse.
If you can get a valid download, share it privatly I will not read the content and do what I can. I sometimes change things via bookmarklet and other means like force a tiddler into the story or forcfully hide the sidebar etc…
When you have a copy you can also open it is safemode
My first thought is that you’ve somehow zoomed in, which would then be reversed by clicking Ctrl = but it seems you already tried that. Also, if the wiki was opened on another device, you’d see if it is a device matter or if it really is TW.
So maybe you’ve somehow messed up some style setting. It seems you can access the controlpanel (right?) in which case you can reverse it by deleting overwritten shadow tiddlers, like so: Under Controlpanel > Info > Basics at the very bottom, you’ll see “Number of overridden shadow tiddlers”. If you click the icon there, you’ll get a list of such and you can test to delete the listed tiddlers there, one at a time, starting with that you’re guessing it might be. Particularly, I could imagine how tiddlers with prefix $:/themes/tiddlywiki or any type of stylesheet could cause these kinds of problems.
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This worked! I started at the bottom of the list of shadow tiddlers, then deleted them one by one until the formatting snapped back to usable proportions! Thank you so very much. Seriously. I’ve got to wait to post this because I’m brand new on the site, but you can picture me offering chants, good thoughts, and prayers for EVERYONE who has offered suggestions and walked me through specific tasks, whether they worked or not.
The file has 300 tiddlers in it, and I spent about four hours copying individual tiddlers into a new wiki–and managed thirty. Yes, I know control-a, control-c, control-v… But my hands don’t exactly cooperate.
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The problem is resolved by deleting shadow tiddlers. Thank you for the help. As for what caused it, I don’t know. I’ve saved the instructions for how to fix it, however, LOL, because this was very stressful.
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Glad it helped. So no misunderstanding; what you’ve deleted are various “settings” and “states” that you’ve made to TW. Deleting an overwrite means that they’re reset to their original state, so there shouldn’t be any danger in doing so, but you may be confused as to why something that you can-swear-on-that-you-tweaked-dammit is no longer so.
I’ve saved the instructions for how to fix it,
Just note that deleting overwrites is not a panacea to any problem 
Now that the crisis has been averted, it would be a good time to review:
The first rule of tiddlywiki
which strangely enough isn’t the first thing you find when you visit tiddlywiki.com.
Glad to see it was semi-resolved in the end although as twMat points out just deleting shadow tiddlers is not a panacea.
Wise words from Mark_S
Perhaps a mention here for the single file version of TW and use of say Tiddlydesktop, the OP mentions reasons for going down the Tiddlyhost route and there are downsides to both approaches.
For me - my knowledge base is thousands of hours of work, no exaggeration at all there. So I am super sensitive to any loss or corruption of data or my TW. My setup affords me the following protections…
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TiddlyDesktop saves the current TW regularly - actually very regularly - a good mornings work might result in thirty or more saved copies each time stamped.
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I regularly rename my TW file with versioning, at the moment my TW is called ***6.2 when I came back from vacation a week or so ago I moved from 6.1 to 6.2 because whilst away I had been writing on a copy on my tablet which I then moved over to my main laptop which is usually the master copy. I decided it was a good time to increment version number.
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Because I change the filename for the TW TiddlyDesktop starts backing up to a new directory automatically - the directory is named after the file and so includes the ***6.2 part of the name. I can access the back ups of the ***6.1 version by simply going over to the old directory. Also whenever I move to a new version of TiddlyWiki I usually start a new version of my TW file naming scheme so that many of my backup directories coincide with releases of TW.
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I use the TW options to make sure that the version number is visible on my sidebar so I can always assure myself what version I am using.
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I regularly back up to other devices and locations - Goggle Drive and so on.
The only bit of housekeeping which is a bit laborious is manually pruning a selection of backups in old repository directories - for instance I probably would leave my 6.1 directory “as is” for now but I might prune my 5.9 directory now since it is sinking further into history, its fairly mechanical - a combination of a little thought and “keep one, delete one, keep one, delete one” down a chronological list of backups in the directory until I decide its about right.
In short I could restart from any week in the last five years if I had to, if restarting from only a year ago I would probably have a granularity of 2 or 3 days and if I wanted to restart from last week I could probably choose the day and hour (progressive pruning of back ups over time).
Excessive???
Well considering I rarely spend less than 2 or 3 hours a day using my TW knowledge base then I don’t think so, I am not sure I would have the heart to start all of this again, I simply cannot afford to lose what I have created, most of my backup directories are between 1 and 5Gigabytes, I don’t mind using a lot of diskspace to protect my time investment.
Simply winding back one or two hours or one or two days is a much less painful way of getting out of a mess than many other options.
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These are all fantastic tips.
Because of physical limitations and quirks, I’m going to have to learn one step at a time. That’s on top of missing knowledge like— You can save a wiki file to google drive? LOL. First I’ve heard of it, so I’m eager to learn more!
Getting the desktop version installed would be wonderful, but akin to taking a three hour hike, not “just click that button.” I’d like to have tiddly on a thumb drive, specifically so I can do research at the library without intermediate steps.
Is there an 0.0. level beginner tutorial?
No, but it keeps me from crying into my tea for weeks, and buys time to learn other skills to PREVENT the problem from recurring.
Right now, I’m trying to teach my hands to single-click instead of nothing-nothing-six-clicks catastrophe. Slow going, but I’ll get there. Accuracy would be wonderful right out of the gate, but that’s AFTER the clicky issue.
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TiddlyHost has a paid level, which does backups.
Otherwise, a simple backup approach is every time you have to log on to TiddlyHost, or at least once a day, use the “download” option you now know about to download a copy.
Delighted to hear you have your TiddlyWiki back!
I wonder if Ben Webber’s motion plugin for TiddlyWiki might help you use your TiddlyWiki efficiently. It uses simple keyboard shortcuts to start common TiddlyWiki processes – e.g. press N to start a new tiddler. However, I am not sure whether a keyboard would be easier or trickier to use than a mouse, given the mechanical issues you mention in your first post.
Just in case, the Motion plugin is here: https://benwebber.github.io/tiddlywiki-plugins/#motion
You can test the plugin on that TiddlyWiki page, to see if it is suitable or helpful for you.
If it is easy to do and seems helpful, you can drag the Motion button at the top of the Motion tiddler to your TiddlyWiki, then click “import” to add it.
All best wishes
Simon
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I’d not encountered that motion plugin before, but had definitely had thoughts of “the default keybindings are very editing-focused, nothing much for the reading/navigating experience”, and this fills that itch wonderfully.
(how much I’ll use it? no idea, but I’m happy to have it installed!)
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Everything for me is a steep learning curve for physical motions. But I tested it, and typing the shortcuts only works from the story river, so I can’t accidentally typo a command in the tiddler while writing. This is a good thing; every word in this message has had at least one typo to correct.
Slow going, but now I get to install my first-ever plugin. Thank you so much for suggesting it!
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Maybe it’s a moot point now, but would “safe mode” have worked in this scenario?
From Tiddlyhost you can get to a “View in safe mode” option. Click the … menu button to see it. In some cases safe mode can get you out of trouble.
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I have no … menu button, even under the “more” tab. I’ll have to find it.
One of the problems is that I kept making the original disaster worse by trying to fix it in the appearance tab.
I’ve been using Tiddlywiki for five years, but it’ s much like using my cell phone: I don’t get “under the hood” unless I’m desperate. It’s time to change that, one piece of information at a time.
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Do you happen to remember if you were on the Theme Tweaks page (tiddler) ? Because that is one place where you can definitely blow things up.
For instance, if you try to change the tiddler font-size, you will probably start by back-spacing over existing values … and when you do, the whole page becomes unreadable. Likewise changing the tiddler width, back-spacing over existing values, can make the page unreadable.
This is why I’ve added a sizer tool to the sidebar on most of my TW files. So I can pick a size and then apply it, rather than have it happen while I’m changing the size. The tool also included a way to change the sidebar size, but I don’t use that much now the sidebar resizer plugin exists.
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I don’t actually know how it originally happened, just that I did a sweep with the mouse and suddenly the text and display are screwy. Going in to try to fix the layout only made it worse.
Which reminds me, time to save AND back up the file again!
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Additionally to backups. you may want to look into a complementary approach that is versioning your wiki (when working with it locally at least), which is more user friendly from the perspective of having to track which particular change broke your wiki.
Here’s an example reference (easy) webdav saving à la Timimi - #2 by vuk
But since you seem to be using Windows, somebody else would have to step in to provide instructions about getting Git in Windows and rewrite the Bash snippet above, maybe using PowerShell.