Export of Scrivener leads to different filetypes

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Hello,
:open_mouth: When I exported my manuskript holding about 25 chapters, I got different types of files :question:

I told Scrivener to export odt, so I got odt-files as well as rtf files. Which I did not understand. Could it be possible that Scrivener exports files as odt, if they were ā€œcopied and pasted from a odt-filesā€? and exports the rest to rtf?

Thanks in advance for any idea
Ulf

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Iā€™m unfamiliar with exporting, as I donā€™t see the need for it myself. However, Compiling it also gives you the option of ODT. I would start there to get what you need.

For testing purposes I would like to know if you were exporting multiple files at once, or a single file. I assume multiple but I want to be certain before I dive in to testing.

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Are the RTF files auxiliary, by chance? It looks like if you export a set of documents to ODT, the main text file will be .odt, but Document Notes, if you have those selected to export, will remain RTF. It should actually be converting those to ODT as well. So that just looks like a bit of a bug. Does that sound right, or are you seeing RTFs for main text files as well? I donā€™t see that result, I get nothing but ODT files with the extra export options disabled (well, folders too).

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okay, just tested and found some things I donā€™t understand

  • export to odt => saves odt files and rtf files. While rtf are 0 byte ones, odt have a size and content

I write a text with chapters and subchapters, it looks like the example down here:

Manuskript

  • 1 First thing
    • a) to happen
  • 2 Second
    • a) thing
      • i) to happen

But the export only takes 1 and 2 and leaves out the subchapters :open_mouth:
Where Is my mistake? Did I set up something wrong in the configuration?

Thanks in advance for your help
Ulf

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I tried to compile the book but,

  • compiling was really fast
  • and I did not I find the file
    Where do I have to look for it and how is it named?

Ulf

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  • It should have asked you in a file dialogue box after you clicked the compile button, where to save the file and what to call it. Do you see nothing in that location?
  • With export, make sure you have the subdocument switch enabled, otherwise it will only export what you have literally selected in the outline.
  • With the RTF thing, I canā€™t really explain the matter without knowing more about the situation. For example, these 0byte files could be coming from empty text editors (there was an old bug that didnā€™t clean up empty files once the user deleted all content from the editor), but you didnā€™t mention what the corresponding text looks like in Scrivener.

Maybe it would best to test this way:

  1. Create a brand new Tutorial project.
  2. Select all of the part folders in the draft.
  3. Use File/Export/Filesā€¦ with Notes and Meta-Data as well as subdocuments enabled; click export after setting up the location and folder name.

All right, go through that. With those options, I get mostly ODT files, some TXT (from the meta-data, that is to be expected), and RTF for Notes documents. If I turn off all of the optional stuff, every file in the export folder will be ODT.

Same for you?

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Verify that you donā€™t have print selected, itā€™s the default and I often forget myself, and try again. It should prompt you for a save location. If not then your install would seem to be severely broken and I would recommend uninstalling, downloading the latest version, and trying again.