Deleting a whole project

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Hi all,

I have been using Scrivener for about a couple of months and I totally love it. I couldn’t work without it.
This might be a very silly question, but I honestly do not know how to do it, so any help will be appreciated. I’m a professor (humanities) and basically use Scrivener to research, draft and write academic articles. The thing is that I get carried away and end up with way too many article projects that will not come to fruition (they are flawed, they are not that good, etc.).
Anyway, my problem is that I have a lot of projects, but I know for a fact that I will not complete all of them, so I’d like to delete the whole project altogether. How can I do that? Dragging them to the trash can doesn’t work, and I always can delete the contents of the project, but what I want is to delete the whole project file. I guess it’s not a big deal, but it’s kind of annoying to open Scrivener and see four or five projects that you will not work on. Any ideas?

Thanks.

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Delete in the Finder? Of course, this depends on what you mean by a project. To Scrivener, a “project” is the “file” (actually not a file, but a package of many files) that you find in the OS X Finder. But perhaps you’re containing several projects or articles within a single Scrivener “project”? In which case I don’t see why you can’t drag the relevant documents in the Scrivener Binder to the Scrivener Trash?

P.S. Welcome, Mr Baggins.

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Well first, make sure Scrivener is closed before you try to delete a project! Secondly, which Trash are you dragging them to? I don’t believe I have ever seen a situation where files dragged into the Trash are spontaneously resurrected by the OS. What happens when you drag other types of files into the Trash?

Oh yes (thanks Hugh)! And use the Finder! :slight_smile: Projects are just files. Nothing magic about it.