To be fair, Pro6 is the first major update in many years – and while it is
still not a full step to where it needs to go, it IS a good thing.
What this means in practical terms is that we are also updating is the
way we work – and THAT is also a good thing.
It seems clear from regular comments posted on FWT that learning these new
ways of working are not best done by converting old sites – I wouldn’t
do that without committing to spending the time and effort to work the bugs
out of your current workflow.
You can run Pro 5 and Pro 6 on the same machine – not without working
through some issues like actions and whatever, but it is possible.
Best to accept that this will be an adjustment period – Freeway Pro is
struggling to catch up to where the world is today, and we must struggle
too – or be left further behind than we already are.
So, first step is learn how to maintain both 5.5 and 6 together – lot’s of
searchable info on FreewayTalk.
Second step, start small with Pro 6 and try some exercise work with it. Now
is a great time to learn inline layouts – again, search the forum and you
will find links to tutorials and stuff.
If you start a conversion project, preserve the 5.5 working version and
treat the 6 version rightly as a learning project.
We are all learning new ways together now 
–
Ernie Simpson
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:51 AM, LauraB email@hidden wrote:
I’ve just spent the last two hours messing up my websites with an upgrade
to FW 6. These aren’t fancy websites, mind you. But nothing is working the
way it should. Some actions go one place. Some go another. Some install one
way. Some install another. I’m not yet even sure which actions I need to
update beyond Carousel and the PHP Feedback Form – both of which I’ve
done, and yet I get javascript errors.
I’ve been using Freeway for more than 10 years. It used to be easy and
just let me design. Comfortable. It never used to require the kind of “hunt
through your actions to see where they live, which updates one way, which
updates another, etc.”
This is the most discouraging update I’ve ever attempted. Honestly? I’ve
been on a Mac so long that I actually DO have that expectation that updates
should be more or less seamless. Now I’m having to hunt through forum post
after forum post for just the right answer. Seriously? Do we really have to
spend this kind of time dealing with what should be an easier process? It’s
swell for you folks who have a lot of experience. Not so swell for people
who just want to make relatively simple sites that look good, operate
soundly, and please the client.
Well, it looks like I can still open my sites in the back-up version of
5.6.5. If not, I may have to use Time Machine to somehow get this Version 6
off my machine.
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