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00:00 hey this is Isaiah from your head software and I'm gonna start off by
00:05 doing a video about this forum post this forum post asks a question about about
00:16 the add ons folder and them trying to organize it but it keeps having more
00:22 problems I don't know the answer to this question but I know that we're gonna
00:29 need a little bit more information from the user before we can answer it so with
00:38 that in mind I'm gonna try to leave this behind and not answer this question
00:43 immediately so yeah I'm just gonna put this guy away and I'm gonna give you
00:52 guys a crash course in what the rapidweaver Adams folder is you know
01:00 what its purpose is what all the files inside of it are for and yeah show you guys how to
01:09 how to manage it on your own if you want to so um here's my add ons folder you
01:18 notice that I keep it right there on my desktop I mean obviously you're probably
01:23 not using rapidweaver quite as much as I am but keeping it in an obvious location is a great thing it solves a lot of
01:31 problems that that might show up so that's a little tip before we even get
01:37 going so this is my add ons folder you notice that it's not super complex
01:44 there's not a lot of stuff going on in there I know I've seen a lot of people
01:50 have you know pages and pages of stuff and not all of its working some of its
01:57 for ancient versions of rapidweaver that they just inherited and they just keep it going so I want to encourage you to
02:05 yeah simplify it and keep it as light as possible everything that's any
02:11 becomes a part of rapidweaver as soon as rapidweaver launches and when you're
02:19 running with lots of plugins and lots of other add-ons snippets and theme styles
02:25 and whatever all that stuff is you know has a burden on rapidweaver so if you
02:33 want to run rapidweaver as fast as possible you know only use the add-ons that you need all right so yeah I'd like to walk
02:45 through these things but I want to walk through them with rapidweaver open and
02:50 running - so see if we can do that um I put this way over here and then get out
02:59 my rapidweaver window see go like that
03:07 what if I no that's not what I wanted to do that
03:15 way no how about that all right so now
03:25 we have an add-on add-ons window that you can see over here and we have
03:31 rapidweaver open to a nice empty file and we're gonna see what we can do to
03:38 see if we can walk through each of these little pieces and see what they all do
03:44 all right I'm gonna do let's see the
03:49 stacks bit last I think that that tends to be the most complicated part but
03:57 other than that lets just walk top to bottom all right so bookmarks the bookmarks database
04:05 yours if you open up your your add-ons folder it might not say you know dot DB
04:11 that depends on your finder settings if you have your finder set to display file
04:16 extensions then it'll show that dot DB but the bookmarks are sort of hidden
04:24 inside rapidweaver um I know when I first saw bookmarks there I thought oh
04:31 wow bookmarks that must be like Safari you know or Chrome but it's not quite
04:38 the same same sort of bookmarks they are places out on the internet but they're
04:45 used for a one really specific purpose inside of rapidweaver which is publishing locations so if you look in
04:53 your little publish pop-up here you'll see a hint manage bookmarks
05:02 there's also I think in view manage bookmarks command 6 so if we open up
05:11 that guy you can see I have two bookmarks here yeah I don't think I have
05:17 anything in this one but I normally keep you know for any project I'm gonna keep
05:24 usually two different two different
05:30 locations number one is I'm gonna have a location
05:40 that's local to my hard drive so that I can quickly publish and check stuff
05:45 before I send it out to the rest of the world and then I'm gonna have a location where I publish everything else and so
05:53 you can set these up if with bookmarks I have one set up with bookmarks my local
05:58 folder and that's because I share that between all of my projects and that's a
06:05 key here is everything in this add-ons folder is shared between projects so
06:17 yeah I'm gonna I'll probably harp on that like over and over again because I
06:23 mean that is the whole point of the add-ons folder everything else in your
06:29 rapidweaver experience you save inside of a project and that's fine but every
06:37 now and again there's things that you want to carry from one project to another and all of that stuff everything
06:44 that you want to be you know an umbrella over all of your projects all that stuff
06:51 goes in the add-ons folder so in this case we have bookmarks and bookmarks are publishing locations so I'll show you
06:58 how to use them if you go inside your publishing locations publishing setup
07:05 um so I just have a default location here but you can say add from bookmarks
07:12 and sure enough there's those two bookmarks that I had and I can set up my normal normal test publish folder so it
07:21 publishes to publish and then I can get rid of this garbage you won all right so
07:29 that's bookmarks and your bookmarks database stores that so if you wanted to
07:35 take your publishing locations and move it to another computer you can just grab your bookmarks database copy it over and
07:42 bam there you go and if for whatever
07:48 reason your your add-ons folder gets crazy you know that's one of the things
07:57 that not a lot of people use people don't normally set up too many bookmarks
08:04 you know if you wanted to delete that file and recreate your bookmarks it
08:09 probably wouldn't be too tough all right okay here is the second thing and okay
08:19 I spent a solid 45 minutes before doing this stream trying to figure out what
08:26 editor themes are and I know a lot about rapidweaver I know some nitty gritty
08:33 detail internal stuff I've been using it
08:39 for 15 years now or whatever I have no idea what editor themes are so if
08:45 anybody knows what an editor theme is please shout it out yeah send me a forum
08:51 post I'm peein email tweet it do whatever I don't know what an editor fee
08:57 mez I I have a hunch because I know one
09:03 of the things that rapidweaver is built upon for its HTML code editor
09:10 is it actually has inside of it an open source editor called
09:16 oh boy I'm not gonna remember the name of it it means strawberry and some like
09:21 Finnish or something like that anyway that for for Jerry it for Jerry ax maybe
09:31 something like that anyway that that editor that code editor actually has
09:36 themes that you can apply to it and I'm betting I'm betting editor themes is
09:42 somehow related to that but I can't figure out how to create one or how to
09:47 save one or for me this folder is always
09:53 empty but it's always there i I really don't know what it's for so if anybody has anything in there or
10:00 knows what this is for or how to create one shout it out I kind of think nobody
10:06 does alright that's the only thing I don't know though okay let's let's move on from there okay so plugins disabled
10:14 there's actually three disabled things there's plugins disabled stacks disabled and themes disabled so all these
10:24 disabled things and they're enabled counterpart come from the add-ons
10:32 manager window so you get to that either by clicking this tab here it's also in
10:38 the Preferences you can open up the Preferences and it's just the last tab in in the Preferences add-ons so if you
10:48 click this button it goes to the exact same place okay so the add-ons manager it shows
10:57 three different things plugins themes and stacks and yeah you can resize it
11:06 which is good because well some people have bajillions of stacks right now this
11:15 only shows the very top level stack so if you look if you look inside of the
11:22 stacks folder you'll only see you know those few guys and they're directly
11:28 correspond to these the ones that I have unselected here me shrink this down so
11:36 it's more visible these guys those are
11:44 the things that show up in stacks disabled there they are
11:50 so the three disabled things are things that you have disabled in this
11:57 environment in this little manager so I'm gonna do one right now I'm gonna
12:04 uninstall plus kit using so these are
12:10 the built-ins and here is plus kitten stacks I wrote stacks John McLoughlin
12:19 wrote plus kit and kind of handed it off to me gave me the baton to keep it up
12:27 I've given it one big rewrite since then but yeah we're not going to use it today
12:33 and so that's the whole moral of this add-ons directory cleanup is yeah if
12:42 you're not using it uninstall it so I'm gonna uncheck it here notice when I uncheck it here it doesn't immediately
12:50 disappear out of the folder and the reason is because your add-ons folder
12:56 well you should never move things around Wow rapidweaver is running because if
13:05 you do then you're like yanking stuff out from the guts of of rapidweaver and
13:13 it's gonna go look for that stuff while it's trying to run and it's not gonna be
13:19 there and yeah bad things happen so really when you're moving things around
13:25 in your add-ons folder quit static quit rapidweaver entirely and yeah so when I
13:33 uncheck it here it doesn't immediately do anything it's gonna it's only gonna do something like right before it shuts
13:40 down right before rapidweaver quits so
13:46 notice also this little black dot there I can't make it into an arrow but
13:53 there's a black dot in the red red circle and the black dot means the file
13:59 is dirty that means something needs to be saved or changed so that's telling us
14:05 when we close this window it's gonna do something so close the window
14:11 it says relaunch required so that's when it's actually going to act and move
14:17 things around so as soon as I hit save from relaunch hopefully plus kit will disappear there goes oh this is a this
14:30 is a frustrating bug and it's actually good that I made it happen it's not my
14:35 bug so I don't I don't care about that anyway notice I had unsafe changes in my
14:45 document and so it popped up do you want to save changes but it did that and it
14:53 didn't like pause the process of restarting rapidweaver so what happened
14:59 is look at my doc check it out I have rapidweaver here and I've rapidweaver
15:04 there ah it's running rapidweaver twice at the same time and with two different
15:10 sets of plugins that is so awful anyway
15:16 I'm gonna say don't save here I don't want to save those changes and I'm not
15:22 even going to keep this open I'm just gonna quit I don't even know what that's gonna do I'm guessing it's just going to
15:28 crash and burn so yeah if you ever catch yourself there's a couple places where
15:35 rapidweaver needs to restart itself when you change plugins and when you change
15:42 when you update rapidweaver in both cases it like reboots itself
15:50 and in both cases there are ways to like
15:56 pause one and then the other one pops up and yeah if you catch yourself in that
16:01 situation shut everything down do you know just yeah start over okay so
16:08 here we go starting starting over we have plus KITT disabled and hopefully it
16:14 it should be in this plugins disabled there it is there's one more little file
16:21 in here built-in plist that's kind of a weird thing and the whole point there is if
16:31 you if you go back to the add-ons folder I don't know if you noticed this one of
16:37 the things that you can enable and disable are all of the built in plugins
16:43 and some of these are the old plugins from rapidweaver 7 and some of them
16:51 won't be enabled by default I have them all enabled but that's just because I
16:57 need to test all this stuff so yeah only enable what you need that's the moral of
17:04 the story today okay so yeah the the
17:13 things that you enable are disable that setting gets saved in this little file called built in dot P list so the if we
17:22 uncheck some stuff here it's gonna write it to that built in dot P list so if you
17:27 lose that built in dot P list it's not the end of the world really so um you know it's it's going to enable or
17:34 disable a few of those things but you can go turn them back on it's just the built in stuff alright so we did
17:42 bookmarks we really didn't do editor because I have no idea what that does we
17:49 did the disabled and we'll just call it all three done snippets okay snippets
17:55 are fun and easy you might know about this one I mean it's a it's a toolbar
18:01 it's a toolbar button so yeah snippets snippets are pretty easy
18:09 you can have HTML or style text snippets of course so let's take a sneak peek at
18:18 something stacks for e I will get out well let's go to this blank page a text
18:25 box and I'm going to edit this text box so that's new in stacks for if you want
18:33 to use a snippet you can drag some text from your snippet over into your text
18:39 text box and it just goes and the same goes in Reverse so say if we have
18:48 something here and I don't know let's make it centered and bold and we can
18:57 drag select all drag that back into the snippets no we add a new snippet rich
19:05 text a bit and then we drag it drag it into here all right so now we have a new
19:13 snippet we can give it a name name and
19:19 now you can use that and just like I said before you can use this across multiple projects that's the the name of
19:26 the game here for the add-ons folder is the snippets the bookmarks these things
19:32 don't just work in this project but now that I've made a snippet from that text
19:38 I can use use those things in every
19:43 project and yeah it's not just saved
19:49 inside of my project inside of my project file anymore it's actually saved
19:57 inside of of your add-ons folder so this this new little snippet that I I i just
20:05 created lives right there
20:10 all right I said I'm gonna skip over the stacked section we'll do that last cuz
20:16 it tends to be a little bit more complicated themes is pretty easy I mean I'm sure you know this is where the
20:24 themes go and themes disabled that's pretty obvious you know those are things
20:29 again that are managed through the add-ons manager it's the themes you'll find lots more
20:36 themes in here because these are all the built-in guys um well not that one
20:44 foundation and I think I found REE installed those are that - - that I have
20:49 installed but you know you can drag a
20:55 new theme in here and if you reboot rapidweaver and you don't have to manage
21:00 things through the add-ons the add-ons manager you can just drag things in here
21:06 restart rapidweaver and you're good to go so this theme styles this is one that
21:13 um I think a lot of people overlook and actually I love theme Styles it's a nice
21:20 little easy feature to use so if I have
21:26 let's see a theme I'm using alpha it's I
21:31 know this really boring grey old theme it's not responsive it doesn't but
21:38 that's the best for testing because I want things that are as simple as possible when I'm when I'm running
21:45 complex tests because I don't want anything else complicating
21:51 complicating my setup when something goes wrong so I used off a lot and if we
21:57 preview alpha well let's put something on the page um yeah it's not very nice
22:04 page but let's say make it a little bit wider so this content fits so I'll bring
22:10 up the sidebar and choose the theme section and I'm gonna switch back to the
22:23 other view so you can see the pop-ups when they happen okay so yeah right now
22:32 we're using the master style which is 700 pixels wide but that's not wide
22:38 enough for this content really so I'm gonna uncheck that and we'll choose
22:43 something else like about 900 that's tad better I guess maybe a thousand all
22:52 right and then hide the sidebar sure and
22:58 then we can save this set of theme
23:04 settings and you do that by clicking the little gear menu here and you say save
23:10 custom style and we'll say extra-wide
23:16 and we'll save that and hopefully that guy lives right here
23:23 now extra-wide as part of our add-ons folder now and
23:30 just like with the snippets and with the bookmarks the best thing about themed
23:38 Styles is they live outside your project file so once I've saved this extra-wide
23:43 if I open up a new project I can use that theme style there too so it's it's
23:50 saved just in this add-ons folder it's not saved as part of your project at all really I mean you apply it to your project but
23:59 but yeah it's really part of your add-ons folder okay somebody has a
24:07 question it says don't let me interrupt your current task well I was kind of in-between by going back to your
24:13 previous tip about disabling page types will that speed up rapidweaver sorry for
24:19 the delay absolutely disabling the the built-in
24:25 ones not enough to worry about it just enable those guys the built-in ones are
24:30 really simple and they've been part of rapidweaver forever so you know the
24:37 rapidweaver api and the built-in plugins are yeah they work really well together but um especially with any complex
24:45 plugins collage plus kit sitemap if
24:51 you're not using those things definitely disable them uninstall them entirely
24:57 drag them away from rapidweaver because those things yeah they actually inject
25:05 code into the running app of rapidweaver and so even when they're not in use they
25:14 actually have changes like let's say plus cat sitemap and
25:20 oh there's one more I know there is but
25:25 there's one more they inject code and start operating even if you don't add a
25:34 one of those page styles and that's it's pretty powerful I mean that you know if
25:41 there are bugs in that thing it's those bugs are getting injected
25:46 there too if they're slowing things down by five percent then they're slowing
25:51 things down by five percent whether or not you even add a page so yes absolutely
25:57 uninstall things yet you aren't using you know I mean I don't get in the
26:04 process of dragging things in and out all the time but yeah keep it as Spartan
26:11 as you can definitely the more stuff that's in there the slower rapidweaver will run all right so that's theme
26:22 styles and we kind of went over themes and disabled themes okay so we've hit on all of this stuff except first acts so
26:30 let's talk about stacks so first off I
26:36 mean I know it's obvious there's stacks and there's a folder called stacks right
26:44 next to it and that's where you put your stacks sorry for the verbage I believe me I did not name stacks and stacks I
26:53 didn't name everything that way it's just yeah everything gravitated that way
26:59 and I kind of had to go with the flow but so we have a folder called stacks
27:06 and it's got all these things in it called stacks and that folder is always right next to
27:17 the Stax plugin always it has to be so
27:25 if you have another folder somewhere
27:31 else called Stax then the Stax plugging cannot see that other folder it can only
27:39 see Stax that live inside of a folder called capital S Stax that is right next
27:49 to the Stax plug-in any any other folder is overlooked is you know somewhere else
27:59 okay so um yeah I mean for for example I
28:05 have a temp folder over here that I just dragged junk to when you know I need to
28:11 put something somewhere and yeah yeah it
28:16 has lots of like I have stacks many so sometimes I keep this guy in here
28:25 because if it's not named stacks then it
28:30 won't be looked in it won't affect anything so stacks many it's just a
28:36 folder full of stuff rapidweaver doesn't care about it stacks doesn't care about it nobody will look in it so even though
28:43 there's yeah a lot how many are in here oh boy one thousand five hundred and
28:53 seventy two stacks that is a lot of stacks anyway so even though I have
29:03 fifteen hundred stacks in there they're gonna they're not going to be looked at and that's a quick way to swap back and
29:09 forth I can shut rapidweaver down remember always shut rapidweaver down
29:14 when you're going to make changes I can name this stacks simple
29:23 and then call my stacks many call that
29:29 stacks and now this is my stacks folder so the next time I start up all of these stacks are gonna be installed so let's
29:37 test it out see if it worked oh and we can watch and see how much slower it is to cuz yeah
29:43 fifteen hundred stacks that's about as many as there are and you'll notice that
29:49 the boot up time is yeah considerable if if the page that we were going to used a
29:56 lot of those stacks if it had a lot of complex that would actually be a part of
30:03 that boot up time would be slower too and believe me I work on that boot up time home but we do need to get some
30:12 information from from all of these little files how much we cash and and
30:21 reading as little as possible is those are all really big deals so we we try to
30:28 do it as fast as possible but um yeah it is uh if you have 1500 and you're
30:34 reading 1500 files it doesn't really matter how small they are it takes a little while okay
30:43 so yeah that's where the stats folder is is is kind of important let's um let's
30:52 put it back to the the other one there I'm gonna rename this stacks mini
31:01 and my stack simple here just call it stacks and I'm gonna put my mini back in
31:09 my temp folder all right so now we're back to our simple set up here nice and
31:21 so diving in inside of this folder you
31:27 can see I just have a few here 1 2 3 4 5 6 I have 6 yellow stacks here but check
31:37 it out how many are actually installed it's like I don't know 100 or so so what
31:49 gives six stacks 100 let's see what the add-ons manager says oh no those are
31:58 plugins stacks ok well these aren't installed so it's just these that's 1 2
32:06 3 4 5 6 so 6 in the add-ons manager 6 in
32:12 the folder 100 in the stacks library
32:18 what the hell the answer is that some
32:26 stacks are grouped together in sort of a little bundle and I've put a few in here
32:34 that I I knew would have this property so if you know exacerbates that that
32:40 circumstance so foundry for instance is
32:48 is one of these yeah larger stacks that
32:53 contains lots of tiny little components so if I search for foundry here it'll
33:03 just come up with all of the foundry stacks plus these alloy stacks which are designed to work directly with foundry
33:12 but all of these stacks this through that all the ones that look pretty close
33:19 to each other all of these guys these are all contained in this one icon here
33:27 in the finder now you can pop this open you can say show package contents and oh
33:37 boy Adam is probably you know not liking that I showed you how to do that but
33:42 anyway yeah don't mess with the contents inside of here but that's where they
33:47 live they are inside of there
33:54 and that's why there's a discrepancy between this list here and yeah the list
34:03 inside of your Stax library hopefully your Stax library should have more things than are ever in your finder and
34:12 the add-ons manager it always should agree with the finder it should always
34:19 be exactly the same stuff
34:24 but the stuff that you see inside of the Stax library that that's definitely yeah
34:33 you're gonna go and see all of those child's stacks as well as the parent so
34:39 the parent stack is foundry dot stack and I think there should be one here somewhere called foundry and so what why
34:49 do they do that though I mean is it just to confuse you know the answer is it simplifies things so it means that
34:59 there's one thing to download after you purchase that stack so one download you
35:04 get 100 stacks and then when it comes time time to update you update that one
35:14 stack and then all 100 of those other things get updated and if you need to
35:23 uninstall or reinstall things then same deal one thing so one thing to install
35:30 one thing to download one thing to update and it manages all 100 of those
35:36 things all together because you wouldn't want to have like you know your header
35:42 stack be a different version than your column stack or I have to worry about that that would be insane so in this way
35:51 you update foundry and it has well I
35:56 think I must have like a debug version because there's just no way that it has
36:02 one
03:37 that's the old leet-speak
36:07 hacker 'is that that's that's a fake version number anyway
36:15 yeah you update one thing it updates everything that's its good thing um yeah
36:25 with that the foundry stacks in fact Joe
36:31 has three stacks I will find them that
36:38 he basically just keeps there just as like well they're the dummy wrappers around things they don't actually have
36:44 any purpose but their purpose is to help
36:50 you update things so it says the only purpose of this stack is to show updates there you go but it makes updating lots
37:00 easier because you know each one of these updates you know a dozen or so
37:06 stacks underneath it all right um so that is why there's a
37:19 discrepancy between all these things that was sort of a key point in in the
37:24 question that was asked to me so um yeah I wanted to make sure and touch on that topic in depth there is one more thing
37:33 over here though we have this one last file here the stack stacks groups
37:41 database so what are stacks groups so
37:47 this library here has a lot of stuff on
37:53 the side here and this is a little bit different now in stacks four there's some extra items here some color but
38:02 essentially that the top the top button here is everything that's kind of the
38:09 one giant list of all the stacks and the rest of these are different sorts of
38:15 stack groups so this one's full of partials these two are new its externals
38:21 and templates this is any image that's in any images that come built into
38:29 stacks so these stacks are a part of the
38:34 foundation stacks and you can use them as textures in in some foundation
38:45 favorites you can favorite any stack you like and it's just a quick way to make
38:50 yeah if you need if you know you're gonna be using this a lot you just hit
38:57 the heart button now it's favorited and if you jump over to the favorites it'll be there so it's a quick way to yeah
39:04 have a little group of the things that you're using right now and the star is
39:10 just the built-in stuff cuz yeah unless you're using foundation or foundry
39:15 you're probably using the built-in stacks quite a bit and so it can be nice
39:21 to have an extra group like that but that doesn't explain the stacks groups file the stacks groups file is for
39:28 anything else so we can make our own so for instance let's yeah let's do foundry
39:38 again so here's all these foundry stacks and we're gonna select those yeah an
39:46 alloy too so we'll select all these guys and nothing else and so you can either
39:55 do this through this gear menu or no this gear menu you can say create new
40:04 group or you can control click you hold
40:09 down the control key and click and you get a contextual menu I like to right-click I'm a three-button Mouse
40:15 person I I know not everybody is Oh hands left at everything
40:21 all right try that again there we go okay so right click Add to group create
40:29 new group boom okay this is all new in stacks four is more group customization
40:37 which is kind of cool so I will call this the founder group and I don't know
40:45 we can give it a birthday cake is my favorite one and we'll make a blue
40:51 birthday cake okay so now we have a blue birthday cake in stacks three if you're
40:57 still using step three which you probably are there's only a handful of people using stacks for right now most
41:04 of them are stack developers if you're using stacks three you can make custom
41:10 groups but you can't color code them and they always look like folders but the
41:16 point is you can make a custom group and now it's just got your foundry stacks in it so if you're using foundry a lot then
41:24 you can do this one I know some people who switch back and forth between foundry and foundation and so it's nice
41:30 to have one group for each and then you know you don't have to worry about did I
41:36 drag the right button stack for the right framework into my layout so yeah
41:45 that's a custom group the custom groups are stored in this custom groups file stacks groups database and the nice
41:54 thing about that is that again that that they're saved outside of your project so
42:01 I've created this group in this project but every project now will have a blue
42:08 birthday cake and that's because that group information isn't saved anywhere
42:15 in this project it's not it's not part of this project at all it's saved only in the add-ons folder so
42:25 yeah anything that you want outside of your project get saved here to the
42:32 add-ons folder and with that I show you a cool feature of stacks for we have a
42:44 new way of saving stuff outside of your project folder so I can create something
42:54 let's go to our blank page here and make a three column stack and I'll add some
43:00 stuff to it and we'll just pretend this is really complex and interesting even
43:06 though it's not right there is our
43:13 complex interesting stack and normally I would say hey let's make partial out of this because then you can reuse it but a
43:22 partial you can only reuse within a project and you know that that's great
43:29 you can copy and paste it to another project but then it sort of becomes another partial it's it's completely
43:34 independent at that point it has the same content but you know if you make a change in one it's not gonna come over
43:41 to the other one but just like the bookmarks database the stacks groups and
43:49 the snippets and the theme styles there's now a way to save a partial
43:56 external to your project and so what did we call it it's called an external so if
44:02 you click the external button it creates an external and
44:10 externals live in your library over here this orange button and there's the
44:19 external that I just created and they nicely live outside of your project in
44:27 your add-ons folder there it is so the
44:33 nice thing about that is we can make changes to this guy here and any project
44:40 that refers to this will soak up those changes the next time that's opened that
44:49 information is being saved outside of your project folder with a little caveat
44:56 that I put in for safety so if you lose
45:01 this file or if you send this file to somebody else that's a good example if you send this file to somebody else
45:07 and they don't have your add-ons folder so they don't have your external well we just treat it like a partial so it just
45:14 becomes you know embedded to that project you don't lose anything so I
45:19 like stuff that is you know kind of failsafe it makes me happy all right and
45:26 templates they work pretty much exactly the same but you can't make changes to
45:32 them so if you you know make something that's really great and you know you
45:37 never want to change it you don't want to risk ever changing that that that
45:44 content then you can stuff it in your templates folder and it's fixed in place
45:54 and you you can't edit it so you know just like any any partial you can go
46:00 edit an external but you can't edit a template it won't edit all right so
46:08 that's enough I think about stacks for there's lots more cool stuff in there like I can double click right there now
46:14 to see that edits even if there's nothing even if I don't have one of
46:20 those that's kind of cool all right that's new
46:29 so yeah what do we learn we learned about all the different parts of the
46:35 add-ons folder and that's pretty important we learned that the add-ons
46:43 folder is for storing things that are outside of the project and we learned an
46:49 important question that oh it's J Bostic J Bo stick I don't know
46:59 I always see them as towards smashed together so I I'm thinking it's J Bostic
47:06 maybe I don't know um anyway he asked oh
47:13 that's correct all right good okay so he asked you know is it is it good to remove some of the
47:22 stuff that's in in the out of the add-ons folder and yes is the answer
47:28 especially plugins plugins are the things that can slow things down and gum things up the most but the other big one
47:36 is Stax you know every now and again I do run into somebody who has over a thousand stacks installed which is a
47:44 considerable investment and I just want to say thank you from me and all of the
47:49 stack developers for investing and believing in us because it's a really big deal you know you're buying shoes
48:00 for my kids and help them pay my mortgage and I really appreciate that um but yeah aside from that keeping a
48:09 clean add ons folder is is essential to you know the fastest most sleek version
48:19 of rapidweaver that you can get and if you can remove a few of those old
48:24 stacks that you're not using then definitely a few things will will improve I mean it if you're not using
48:31 them it's not like it slows down your publishing or anything but I will if you
48:40 remove a few it will speed up launch time and it'll speed up file opens so
48:46 you know that's that's something it's it's not huge but you know if you're
48:53 launching rapidweaver three times a day that's enough you know it could be a few
48:59 minutes of your day all right so we've gone over those things I just want to cover go you know
49:07 full circle and go back to the original question that we used as a springboard
49:13 for this whole big deal here and I had these guys yeah I'll hide that too
49:22 excuse me and have a drink of water
49:29 all right so here's the original question
49:34 it would appear my Mac slash rapidweaver made a Stax directory within a Stax
49:42 directory if I move the Stax to the root Stax directory it will be visible within
49:50 the add-on stack interface but not in the library okay that's like the key
49:58 sentence right there
50:04 and I think what he's implying here is that if he moves things around in one
50:15 way then they show up in the add-ons folder and if he moves things around in
50:22 the other way they show up in the stacks library and if you move things around
50:28 too much it's creating other stacks folders well okay I have a few comments
50:35 on that one is the add-ons folder and
50:41 the stacks library don't always show the same thing in fact they usually won't
50:46 the add-ons manager only shows what's in the finder it shows those top-level
50:54 parents tax that we looked at so for
50:59 instance we have foundry here it's the
51:04 parent of what like 30 or so 40 I really
51:10 have no idea but a whole bunch of child stacks underneath it little teeny bits
51:17 of of the of the whole system and foundry is just sort of the umbrella the
51:23 parent of that all right hey thanks for
51:31 stopping by I was just saying goodbye to J Bostick
51:40 hopefully um so yeah the addons folder
51:46 and the add-ons manager agree but the
51:51 Stax library is going to show all of those child stacks too so yeah don't try
51:57 to get those things to line up because maybe they never will they probably won't okay the second thing is um keep
52:06 in mind that the Stax plug-in and the
52:13 Stax folder always live next to each other you can't get them apart if you
52:21 launch rapidweaver and open a Stax page and there's no stats folder there Stax
52:28 is just going to create it it'll be an empty one but it's going to create it
52:33 whether you like it or not all right so
52:46 that's like the educational portion of this I want to give the person who has
52:52 this problem a couple tools to try to help themselves okay number one is put
53:01 your add-ons folder in a really simple location so I've put mine here on the
53:07 desktop you don't have to do the desktop if you don't like that your home folder is fine your Documents folder is a good
53:13 place but you know keep it out of Dropbox and iCloud and Google Drive you
53:21 know those things are complicated and there's other systems that are you know
53:27 moving things around or copying things or who knows what you know if you're if
53:32 you're running into problems keep it simple put it on your desktop or in your home folder somewhere where you always
53:40 configure it out and you do that see we'll bring this guy to the front
53:47 you open up your add-ons manager and down here at the bottom you say add-ons
53:54 location and you choose other and then you specify a location I'm not going to
54:00 do it because it'll mess things up but um you know I've specified this location
54:06 right here and it shows you the path to that location if you choose a really
54:12 complex thing that's too long you won't be able to read it all and you know
54:18 that's a drag because you know part of choosing a simple location is to try to
54:24 be able to read the entire thing so you can verify is this folder that I am
54:32 looking into that I'm cleaning up is that really the folder that rapidweaver
54:37 is currently using and so that's the second point here so
54:44 we're gonna try to comment this at two directions sort of like um like when
54:50 your math teacher tells you to verify your work so you do your multiplication in one direction and you get an answer
54:56 and then you use your answer and you do division to see if you can get back to
55:02 the original question so in this case we're going to set our add-ons location
55:12 with the add-ons manager so that we can get it in one way but then we're going
55:20 to ask rapidweaver where is your add-ons folder in fact we won't even ask
55:27 rapidweaver it will directly ask Stax to do that and we can do that by going to
55:33 this gear menu way down here at the bottom and we choose show Stax library
55:40 and finder and hopefully it should open
55:45 up that exact same window and if you want to verify well you can look at this
55:53 bottom bar here I think that's view see it's this one
55:59 hide status bar show status bar the status bar is is that right no path bar
56:05 status bar is the very bottom thing the path bar so we have to show the path bar and if you have the path bar shown then
56:13 you can see that okay there's my home folder there's desktop there's the
56:18 add-ons thing there's my stacks folder you can also command click and click on
56:26 the title that shows you the whole path to alright one last thing so I showed
56:40 you one way to yeah ask stacks
56:45 what is the add-ons folder you're currently using right now by doing the
56:51 show stacks librarian finder but I think I know at least five more ways to ask
56:59 rapidweaver to open up that folder so yeah this is live challenge to myself
57:08 let's see if I can do it here we go number one oh yeah well we'll just ctrl click on
57:16 one of these guys like that foundry let's type it foundry okay and I'll
57:25 choose show and finder so that opens up that that guy so that's two or I said
57:33 five more ok so that's one we can go to the add-ons folder add-ons manager and
57:40 we can say reveal in finder and that opens up the the root of the add-ons
57:45 folder so that's that's two we can click
57:53 on one of these guys and say reveal stack and that opens up that exact same
58:00 thing so that's three
58:09 all right we can go oh we can go to the
58:16 view menu and choose reveal add-ons folder that's four we can do command
58:28 seven oh you have to actually be in rapidweaver command seven so that's the same as
58:34 going to that menu that's sort of a cheat so that's kind of five but there is one more it's in the rapidweaver menu
58:42 reveal add-ons folder so that is six so
58:51 yeah there's lots of ways to ask rapidweaver which add-ons folder am i
58:56 using right now hopefully they all say the same thing I mean they really should and if they don't boy file that as a bug
59:04 because that's a bad one but yeah double check if you're having
59:10 trouble like if you're installing add-ons and they just go nowhere I see
59:15 this question yeah five times a week or something people install add-ons and
59:23 it's usually that they have multiple versions of rapidweaver installed and so
59:29 the add-ons are going into the rapidweaver seven add-ons folder or maybe they bought rapidweaver on the App
59:38 Store and downloaded it and so it's going to one of those places and not the other so yeah this is a way to verify
59:47 that the add-ons folder that you're really using is the same one that you see in the finder and you are managing
59:57 okay so with that information and with you know those key tips one put your
01:00:07 add-ons folder in a really obvious location to verify the location of it
01:00:17 and three do some spring cleaning make sure that the only things that are in
01:00:24 there are the things that you need absolutely and you know really if if
01:00:33 you're running into problems yeah you can temporarily move some stuff out make
01:00:39 your add-ons folder look pretty much just like this if it's got more things
01:00:44 than this in it then you know maybe those things are the problem so drag them out at least
01:00:51 temporarily restart rapidweaver and see where you go okay so with those three
01:00:57 things spring cleaning put it in a
01:01:02 simple location verify the location then
01:01:08 open it up see what's in your stacks folder if it seems like the wrong things
01:01:14 report back your findings report back what is in your add-ons folder and we'll
01:01:20 go from there"}]