Question from a Newcomer

#1

What is this strange text which has appeared in MyTiddly and doesn´t disappear?
I am nearly a Newcomer (only 6 months as satisfied user) and not a “coder”. Will appreciate any help.
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#2

Where is it appearing?

Perhaps a screen shot?

#3

What did you do before the problem came up the first time?

#4

Does this happen at startup? Did you set a password for your wiki?
Do you remember anything you were doing, when this problem started.?

#5

TiddlyWiki problem 210915
TiddlyWiki problem 2109151366×768 63.5 KB

#6

Something very strange happened! When I checked the Backups saved from 2021-09-12, 2021-09-14, and 2021-09-15, the text has disappeared!

And when I recently have saved the entry from today the backup saved show no text!

So problem seem to have been solved!!!

#7

Appeared when I uploaded my latest backup file. I have no password.
But as you can read in my reply to pmario the problem seem to have been solved “on its own” as we say.

#8

@ahinama as a newcomer welcome.

I understand this is solved now but an observation and a possible cause if it reoccurs below;

There may even be value looking in a bad copy of your wiki to see if you can find the “root cause”.

First, if a system tiddler has being accidently changed it could be causing this. Make a copy of your wiki your wiki then open that (not your main copy).
If you go to advanced search, Filter and enter “[all[shadows]]” and scroll down all the tiddlers that are not bold will have being changed from the defaults {If there is a lot of these it may not be worth proceeding). Open one of these changed tiddlers at a time and delete it, check if the fault is still occurring, most will make no difference or break something else, hopefully one will be the cause. If you find the offending tiddler capture the title in your notes. This means the problem is solved.

  • Now return to your main copy of the wiki, open the noted tiddler, perhaps clone a copy (remove any tags in the copy if you do).

  • Since we now this is the broken tiddler you could edit it, and use the preview button and “differences from Shadow”.

  • Now you can just delete that noted tiddler. It will revert to the shadow tiddler.

Other notes

  • The unwanted texts looks like the content of a system tiddler.
  • Perhaps it was in a tiddler incorrectly tagged with one of the “placement tags” such as $:/tags/AboveStory $:/tags/BelowStory full reference
  • If it were in a tiddler $:/config/EmptyStoryMessage it would only be displayed if there is nothing open
#9

Thanks @TW_Tones! This was also my own reaction. Why did it happen?
As a Newcomer I consider it to early to try to follow your excellent guidance, but in case the problem reoccurs I will certainly try it as a “learning opportunity”. Thanks again!

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