When I launched Scrivener for the first time I was asked for a Project name so I gave the title of my book. Now my project has a binder full of introduction notes. How do I free up my title from all of these folders and documents?
Thanks.
Hi joseph_c_goodman, and welcome to the forum.
If you’ve started your Scrivener project from one of the project templates, it will automatically add the Manuscript, Research, and Trash root folders. These three folders cannot be deleted.
It will also add a number of other placeholders to make starting your project easier. These documents and folders can be moved to the Trash and the Trash emptied to permanently delete them.
If you haven’t reviewed it yet, I recommend that you start by reading through the Interactive Tutorial. You can access it either from Scrivener’s Help menu or from the new project templates panel.
It will introduce you to Scrivener’s terminology and give you a test project where you can try out the different features. I’m a fan of using it as a place to test before using a feature in my own project.
Scrivener’s Help menu also has links to the Windows tutorial videos.
In addition, our Outreach Specialist, Oliver, offers monthly webinars on using our software.
The upcoming webinar topics are available on this outreach webpage.
The videos from past webinars can be viewed on this webinar library webpage.
We also have our blog that offers some hands-on materials you can test out.
Those resources can be helpful to see Scrivener in action, which may give you a better feel for if any of those stock materials might be useful to you.
1 Like
To me this sounds as if you had saved the Interactive Tutorial (which is a project too) under the title of your book. Which might be confusing but is nothing bad.
If I’m right you should locate it on your computer and either rename it or delete it (given that you did not add any content of your book to it). You can create it again (and will again be prompted for a save location and a name) from the Help menu, like @RuthS explained. You should definitely read and play around with the Interactive Tutorial to get a general idea how Scrivener works.
After that or parallel to it you can create a new project for your book; either based on a template or an empty one.
When you have a manuscript already, say a Word document, you should import it at best via File/Import//Import and Split. It’s important to know that importing into a Scrivener project copies each imported file and keeps the original files intact. Moving documents between projects works too.
Your assumption was correct and the solution worked. Thanks very much!
I will use these helpful links Ruth. Thanks very much!