Apologies if this question has been discussed before, but this is new for me. For two of my scrivener files, both the “Draft” folder and the nested folders appear to be empty when I click on them, but I can see the text again when I click on the individual files within. Can anyone please tell me why this is happening?
Thanks
You’re seeing the text of the folder itself. Folders can be converted to and from text files, and so have space in them for writing “on” the folders too. If you want to see the text areas of the documents contained in a folder, try clicking the left-most icon in the 3-icon set that includes a tiny page, corkboard and outline. This should toggle you between ‘scrivenings mode’, which shows you the text of multiple documents at once and a single-document view. Clicking on the corkboard icon or the outline icon would show you the documents/folders contained within the folder you’ve selected in the binder.
Hope that’s clear. If not, maybe take a look at the Interactive Tutorial under Help. It’s a project template that guides you through a self-paced introduction to most of Scrivener’s features. The section relevant to your question is “Part 2: Organization”, but I’d recommend going through part 1 too. Don’t let it overwhelm you; you can always close it and reopen it later, starting where you left off.
Thank you so much! This was driving me crazy.
This just started happening to me too. All of the files have “blank” icons until I click on them, then all the text is there. This is a bug - I noticed it first because my draft word count shows as 0, but each time I click on a Text icon, it goes from blank to filled in and then the word count for that piece is added to the draft word count.
I don’t know what’s causing it, but it just started a few days ago.
That’s a different issue altogether from the original post. I think what fixed the issue you’re dealing with for me the last time this happened (years ago) was to use the “Save and rebuild search indexes” function. On Windows, it’s in the Tools menu. On Mac, I think it’s under File, but you have to hold down the OPT key to reveal it.
If that doesn’t work, and no one else chimes in, you might want to contact the support email from the main site; that gets a quicker response, and also the responders have a direct line with the developers.
Good luck!
Yes, I think we were having two different problems. anyway, I rebuilt the search indexes yesterday in Windows, and when I opened the project on my Mac today the problem has gone. So thanks for the solution!
I just had this problem and have now fixed it using the ‘save and rebuild search indexes’