Cannot seem to find info on projct .srvx and/or folders project size or file size limit?
Any info appreciated.
John
John:
The quick answer I believe is that I haven’t found a limit. I’ve had a scrivener project over 100Mb which had a lot of imported PDFs in the research folder (not good for speed of display and I found a better way is to use the reference links to a directory structure on the file system – keeps the Scrivener project really fast and you can use a PDF viewer for rapid access).
I’ve seen reports on the forums of other projects on both Windows and Mac of several hundred megabytes without any problems.
Are you looking to do something specific?
Richard
If a single file gets really big, then it will slow down the interface whenever it loads into an editor, or when autosave kicks in after a pause in editing. On a lark, I downloaded the King James bible in text, imported into a Scrivener project, and began to break it down by the “books”. At first, each split took several seconds, but as I got further along, it got snappier. It’s a HUGE document, but Scrivener (for Mac in my case) handled it fine except for the slowness. Once everything was broken down into the constituent books (I’d have called them chapters if it were up to me), then Scrivener had no trouble with it whatsoever.
To Richard and Robert…WOW - thank you for your reply.
What I am trying to do:
I am trying to take all my works and projects [not sure if it is as big as the The Bible 
] and put them into one large project file. Novels, Short Stories, non-fiction manuscripts, news articles and so on.
Not sure this will work though, I could not find any tech spec on file size. The slow/snappier document/autosave/ access time makes sense, why didn’t I think of that too? I must be getting older.
What I really need is a master project file which enables access to all my other projects. let me give you one small example (then simply multiply more projects/documents/articles/manuscripts/books whatever).
I write poker articles for various magazines, also a poker book, also poker training lectures and scientific papers related to poker. Now multiply this…into a variety of topics from fiction to non-fiction…and I want to keep it all accessible in one place; especially since some of the data is cross-referenced and resourced across numerous projects and topics/fields.
I hope this explains.
Thank you again so much,
John
This is even an entry in the table of contents in the user manual. “Project size limitations”.
The technical answer is that you’d have to be as prolific as a significant chunk of humanity to break Scrivener’s size limits. Let’s just say, you could probably archive Wikipedia in it without too much hassle (I’ve even heard of projects far larger than the Wikipedia database). Practically speaking, however, you’ll probably want to put in a bit less than the world’s largest structured accumulation of knowledge. The main limitation is how long it takes to back it all up every time you shut down. You don’t want to disable that backup feature unless you have a better system already. So keeping the shutdown time below a few minutes is best (and just to be clear, even a huge project will only take fractions of a second to back up, most often people have no idea the feature even exists). The answer to how long that is, is of course up to each individual’s level of patience.
Regarding the master project list, linking to all your other projects, I recall one user posted a while ago about how he does this: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/creating-a-master-project-list/8085/15
Again WOW! thank you!
The reason it is has taken so long to reply is I have tried all the suggestions each of you graciously rendered, and WOW again, I obtained some very good ideas and different structural layouts/outlines.
Most of all I took the advice of creating a primary projects lists, linking within the primary “.scriv” links to all the various works and projects and categories from articles to book to the research and manuscripts.
I’m sure more time with Scrivener, things will mature.
Still trying to wrap my learning curve around the potential journal functionality, however would love to figure it as a project management and action items to do task reminders and similar so on. But that is for another time and place, I am still working on the what I have learned to date.
Once again, lots of big thank you(s) to each of you, Scrivener and this User Forum have finally made my life and writing easy and easier! WHEW 8)