Document order different in outline vs binder

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After a long time of not using Scrivener because of no writing, I recently got it for Mac OS X… so many improvements.

However there’s one thing I don’t understand, and hopefully it’s user error (or ignorance).

I’ve set up a load of scenes and plot points (a la Blake Snyder for those who like that kind of thing) as documents and folders, to drag and drop and re-order and generally experiment. But one folder won’t stay where I put it in the Outline view, though it’s fine in respective binder.

Apparently I can’t post a screenshot, so I’ll use my words…

Binder version:

Folder
Subfolder 1
Subfolder 2
Subfolder 3
Subfolder 4
Subfolder 5
Subfolder 6

Outline view from selecting the Folder so the outline view appears in the main window:

Folder
Subfolder 1
Subfolder 3
Subfolder 4
Subfolder 5
Subfolder 6
Subfolder 2

And Subolder 2 stays there however much I try to drag it away. I’m not, as far as I know, sorting by anything in the Outline view, and the other folders can be dragged and dropped as expected.

Shouldn’t the one in the outline be in the same place as the one in the binder? How do I make the Outline follow the same order as the binder, which is what I want to happen?

Hopefully it’s just setting or a minor thing I don’t know…

thanks

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It does sound rather like you have the outline view sorted by something, albeit inadvertently. In the Outline view click in the Title (or Title and Synopsis) column header area. This will change the sorting behavior of the list. A sort-state character may appear at the right end of that column header area. Keep clicking until first you see a sort character of some kind (we have now grabbed the sort authority from any other column that might have had it), but then keep clicking until there is no sort character. Now your outline is unsorted.

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Thanks - that was it and did the trick.

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