Spent a lot of time arranging and writing scenes on the corkboard for a NaNo prep. I thought they would all remain in same format despite my sending copies of them into folders to attach to characters. I know I left several on the board untouched. Yet now the board is nowhere to be found! I’ve looked in the backup file and all I see is the Scrivener Tutorial. Is there something I haven’t done correctly? If it’s helpful to know, I had just subscribed a day earlier to the paid version after only using the 30 days free for a couple days, since I know I’ll be needing it. This is not a secure feeling being unable to find these notes anywhere. Hoping somebody can help send me to the right button!?
When you say “the backup file”, do you mean Scrivener’s automatic backups or did you save (as) a copy of your project manually? If that’s the case, where to? Hard to tell what’s going on, but I could imagine how “Save as…” could go wrong if you’re not used to it. As in: Keep working in the wrong project. But that’s just a guess at this point.
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The index cards on the corkboard are not separately existing objects, but are each attached to an item (e.g. text doc) in the Binder. So, unless your Binder is now inexplicably empty, your index cards have not gone anywhere, and the problem you are having is that you’ve fallen out of the view that was showing them to you. The corkboard is just an interactive way of viewing some metadata associated with your Binder items.
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Click on the Draft folder, then switch to the Corkboard view mode (icon on the toolbar, or menu item for this). This will show you the corkboard with the index cards associated with all the Binder items (at the first level) in the Draft folder. (This same procedure can be applied to clicking on any folder in the Binder.)
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My first tip for the common “where did it all go” question is to click the magnifying glass icon in the main toolbar. This will drop down a search field over the left sidebar. Type in a few words that you know should be found within one of your cards, and chances are very high you’ll get at least one hit. Select the most likely one in the sidebar, and use the Navigate ▸ Reveal in Binder menu command.
That should illuminate where your cards are, and if you press the left arrow key on your keyboard, it will select “up” to the container the found card is located within, most likely showing you your corkboard in the main editor. Now that you have your bearings, take a moment to examine the binder and where things are. Is it what you expect? If not, maybe it got accidentally dragged and dropped somewhere you didn’t mean it to be. You can drag and drop it elsewhere in the binder.
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Unless the container is locked to a different view mode.