I am being driven CRAZY by a recurrent error message that the bibliography/citations manager set in my preferences is not available and telling me to go into preferences and make sure I have set the correct one.
I am not interested in a biography/citations manager. My preferences has the bibliography/citations manager set as “none” but, clearly, Scrivener doesn’t like that and sends me an error message as above every time I make a single edit to my manuscript.
It really is infuriating and I’m seriously wishing I hadn’t spent the money to upgrade. PLEASE help me get rid of this endlessly recurring message!!! I just want to get on with writing, not messing around with new features I didn’t ask for and have no idea how to switch off.
Hmm, I don’t get this at all. The only way I am aware of to invoke the bibliography/citations warning is to press CMD-Y.
If you are getting this without pressing CMD-Y, I think you may have inadvertently included something in your draft that Scrivener thinks is a citation placeholder. I’m not sure what these actually look like, but they are hinted at in chaper 20 of the manual (page 182).
Are you a scriptwriter by chance? The keyboard shortcut for the elements menu has been changed from Cmd-Y to Cmd-Shift-Y, and Cmd-Y now calls up the citation manager and will yes, throw an error if nothing is assigned.
If that’s not the case, pop down the Format menu and see what shortcut is display beside that menu item (it’s at the very bottom). Maybe it got changed to something weird and very easy to hit by accident.
Hmmm. I really liked the old light bulb here, the Cmd-Y combo to bring up the elements menu. Is it possible to go into the Keyboard preferences and map Cmd-Y that way? I happen not to have much need for my reference manager, when drafting in Scrivener.
Thanks for your help but all I need to do to invoke the error message is to click the cursor anywhere in the text. Or type something. Anything. And then it won’t go away. I cancel it, click back in the text and it returns.
I’ll chase up Eddy’s and Druid’s suggestions - thank you - and , yes, I do write scripts from time to time. But the only draft I currently have in Scrivener 2 is my current novel, ported from version 1, and - so far - I haven’t been able to do anything with version 2 beyond finding new ways to curse the recurring error message.
I can’t think of any reason why not, Druid. You can remap in the same way you’d make up a new shortcut for a menu item with none. The menu command is in the Scriptwriting menu, “Show Script Elements Menu” I think, but you’ll want to verify that before setting it back to Cmd-Y in Sys Prefs.
Okay… I don’t know why or how or what the heck but - thank God - it’s stopped doing it. The message stopped appearing.
All I can think is that I actually turned my iMac off last night whereas I normally leave it on “sleep”. But, whatever, this morning it’s working fine and I’ve been able to type into it and edit etc. just as I always did before upgrading.
Thanks for your helpful comments, everyone. May all your projects be successful.
When my iMac is misbehaving, I not only power down but pull the power plug out of the socket, go away, and let all of the gremlins vanish. It’s surprising how often that clears away the trouble. Just returned from a week long trip. When we left, both of our iMacs were acting strangely. So, shut down, pull plugs, go away, and a week later, both of them start up fine!