Compile including things not included

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The last two times I’ve compiled my novel, it’s included parts of chapters from previous drafts. And the last time it inserted an entire second chapter two from a previous draft. Both were in the trash, so couldn’t have been checked. Any ideas for a fix? My agent can overlook this, but I also can’t keep sending him incorrect drafts. Thanks.

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Check your filter – funnel icon – at the almost top-right of the compile panel. Next to where you select what to compile, just above the documents list.
(A likely candidate.)

Unless you have a very specific reason to use it, you want that turned off.

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Also your default setting is include compile documents. So when open compile panel see if documents set to compile includes one in trash. If are, first uncheck, and second change to exclude compile status for documents in trash folder.

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Nope. No filters are applied. And I’ve only checked the chapters I want to be included. Also, one of the things that’s getting repeated is showing up where if was three drafts ago, in the middle of a completely different chapter, and it’s only a four or five paragraph section, not an entire chapter. I’ve triple-checked and it’s only chapters 1-37 checked with a Times New Roman manuscript format. Any other ideas?

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For what it’s worth, here is what I would do :

  • Backup the project.
  • Save as with a distinguishable name.
  • In the new version, empty the trash.
  • Then I would close that new version (the old version is now out of the picture, close it too, quit Scrivener), and in file explorer I would delete the whole of that new version’s snapshots. (Just to be clear : don’t mess with the old version.)
  • Then I would test compile. – Same parameters as before, but this new version of the project.

If all compiles fine, keeping my previous version of the project as a reference for if needed (I would likely rename it so, too), I would work in the new version from there on.

If somehow [any ghost references should now lead eihter nowhere or to content of the old version, if you didn’t rename it too – so perhaps do so and try again] compile fails in the new version after I’ve emptied the trash and ditched all snapshots, I’d contact support, I guess.
(Could perhaps be a simple case of Zap gremlins, but windows doesn’t have that function.)

→ I assumed you didn’t use any include placeholders.