Delete

4th March 2012
To DELETE a Tiddler:

First open your tiddler in Editing mode by clicking the "edit" button ('pencil' icon).

You will now see a "delete" option in the Tiddler menu - in most browsers this is represented by an icon of a wastebin.

What happens if I delete?


It depends what you are deleting!

If you have edited content in a tiddler that exists in the "core" manual then you have effectively been "over-writing" material that is independently curated by the originators. When you delete YOUR local manualized content, the original material under that same tiddler title will 'pop back' in its place (this happens once you reload the manual, by clicking the refresh button on your browser.)

If you have written entirely NEW material (tiddlers with titles that do not exist in the original core manual) then this material is YOURS and will be deleted for ever.

You can look back at REVISIONS (i.e. past versions) of any tiddler, by looking at Show references and info - so that past versions can be recovered, so long as you don't delete the whole tiddler.

, If you delete content from a TiddlyManual that was a LOCAL VERSION of core content (i.e. if a tiddler from the core AMBIT manual had previously been edited to

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