Hi KB. First off, you did a great job on 2.0, and I’m quite happy with the upgrade so far. However, there’s one pesky bug that keeps happening to me and I don’t know why or how it happens.
I’m using Scriv2.0 for my nano this year and I seem to be getting duplicate content here and there; this is so NOT good, because every time I open my file and the bug has happened, I get a freewheeling little moment of “eeeeeeh! my wordcount has magically grown!” and then I have to hunt down the duplicate stuff to reestablish reality.
I write scenes within chapters and my chapters are always just containers with a name, for outlining purposes. Usually this works great, but no matter what option I choose (parent items as either files or folders) when I save, then backup then reopen my document, the content of the first scene has been entirely copied onto the parent file/folder, doubling the wordcount.
I included two screenshots so you can see; I swear I didn’t copy anything, just took my correct document (with nothing but synopses on the chapters), saved it, reopened it and BOOM. Duplicate content.
Am I doing something wrong, or what? Has the underlying document structure changed in 2.0 and it doesn’t work with folders/subfolders anymore?
On MacOSX SnowLeopard 10.6.4, intel, Scriv2.0 official version (not nano-preview)
That should be… Impossible. There’s nothing in Scrivener that can automatically move text from one file into another, so something very odd is going on here. I’ll need full instructions to reproduce this, I’m afraid, because I’ve never seen it and no one else has reported anything like it. Can you please open a new project, create a text document with a subdocument in it, and then find the steps you need to take to make this happen?
I’ve no idea what happened, and I’m scratching my head a bit at this; I keep removing the duplicate content every time I open up the document which was fine when I saved and close. Everything was just peachy until it happened once, and then it keeps happening every time.
My outline is monstrous and huge; I’ll see if I can’t just start over in a new file as soon as I find the time. I’m also going to try and Save As… to a completely new location and work with that one in case it’s the BackupTo… feature that’s busting things around. I’ll empty the trash as well. Who knows, I’ve no idea what’s going on.
As soon as I find the time, I’ll try to reproduce it in a new document, but like I said, things were going fine until it happened once, so I doubt I’ll be able to reproduce it. But I do move things around quite a bit, and sometimes I mess up, write in the Chapter folder and cut-and-paste it back in the new scene where it belongs. Maybe I did it once too many times and it corrupted something in the Outline?
Does it happen with the same document every time in this particular project? If so, could you zip up and send me the project, with instructions on what I have to do to see it? The only possible reason I could think for this to happen is if, somehow, two documents in the same project ended up with the same internal ID, and so ended up loading the same text - if that were the case, though, changes in one text should immediately be reflected in the other, and other weird stuff would happen too.
How do I send it over?