035 export does not save folders

Scrivener Scrivener for Windows
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  • select a bunch of folders, most of them with text in them (ie text written in the folder itself), and some containing daughter text files
  • do file / export / files
  • select ‘doc’ format
  • save
    Folders without separate daughter text files are not saved at all.
    Folders with separate daughter text files are saved as Windows folders, but their text content is lost.

But…
Convert the folders to files, and it all works properly. Files with text content that contain daughter files are saved both as folders, and as text files with the right text in them.

One small point.
It would be more intuitive for me if the content of a file/folder was saved inside it, rather than at the same level of the tree structure.

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Thanks for the report. This is a known bug and on the list to be corrected.

Are you talking about viewing the exported files in Explorer? You should get a folder for each exported folder or doc stack with the subdocuments contained inside it alongside the folder text (if there is any). So if you export folder Part containing document Prologue, and folder Chapter which itself contains text and also has subdocument Scene:
Part

  • Prologue
  • Chapter (with folder text)
    —Scene
    Then what you should get in explorer, if you save the export as “Part”, is a folder called Part containing a Prologue document and a Chapter folder, with the Chapter folder containing both a Scene document and a Chapter document (which latter contains the folder text of chapter). Right now of course with the bug the chapter text document isn’t being included, but that’s how it will fall in the hierarchy once this is fixed.
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What I’m trying to say is:

In Scrivener, a file named Part contains text “this is some text” and has a daughter file Chapter.

Exporting to a windows folder called Exp creates these Windows files:

Folder: Exp

which contains

Folder: Part
File: Part (with the text “this is some text” )

which contains

File: Chapter.

I would prefer the outcome to be:

Folder: Exp

which contains

Folder: Part

which contains

File: Chapter.
File: Part (with the text “this is some text” )

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Sorry if I was unclear, but yes, the way you describe wanting it to happen is the way this should work once the bugs are fixed. The folder text will be a file contained within the folder of the same name, not at the same level.