Help! Our Swiki stopped working and our content is inside

> Hi all,
> I'm afraid I'm in a rather stupid spot and I don't know how to  
> pull myself out of it, or even write intelligently for help from  
> some kind soul.
>
> Months ago, maybe a year ago, one of my colleagues wanted to learn  
> about wikis and so I figured out how to bring up a swiki in a  
> squeak image and I set it up on her Mac to play with. In the course  
> of playing she got some of our other colleagues using it for  
> collaboration. Everything went swimmingly and it got used more and  
> more but never in such a way that I worried to document what I had  
> done.
>
> Now something has gone wrong and we haven't the slightest idea  
> what, nor do we have much recollection even of what we were using.  
> Below is a picture of what it looked like when it was working. And  
> I vaguely remember having to write about 4 lines of code to get it  
> started and then we just had to save and quit and from then on it  
> would automatically startup when we started squeak.  Problem is,  
> now we just get a grey screen and I can't find reference to what I  
> need to do to get the swiki running again. I expect our content is  
> safe in the image if we could get the swiki serving  again.
>
> If anyone can help us out we would be greatly appreciative.
> Cheers, and thanks so much,
> Randy
>
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>

> Hi Randy!
>
> Randy Siler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> automatically startup when we started squeak.  Problem is, now we
>> just get a grey screen and I can't find reference to what I need to
>> do to get the swiki running again. I expect our content is safe in
>> the image if we could get the swiki serving  again.
>
> First of all - Swiki stores all content outside of the image, so it
> should be safe.
> Secondly - if you don't find someone else to help you, send me a  
> private
> email and I can look at it later in the week.
> You could probably just replace the image with the original and go  
> from
> there - BUT... take a backup of the whole directory first. :)
>
> regards, Göran
>

>
> Hi Randy--
>
>> I'll see if anyone else chimes in and we will try looking for the
>> content outside the image (I never would have expected that, given the
>> Smalltalk "everything is an object and "files, how prosaic"
>> philosophy.).
>
>      Indeed! We really ought to live up to that statement; we have a
> strange myopia about a bunch of file-ish things in the meantime.