Hello, a recurring problem is that when these docs are opened in an external editor, they are all called content.xyz. Since I can’t change the name content in Scrivener, I was wondering if I could create a finder alias of that content.xyz file (.pdf, .scap, etc) and give the alias the name I want.
thanks in advance for your time and help
You could, and I don’t think that would be too much of a risk since “Open in External Editor” is not going to be functionally much different than clicking on an alias. However have you actually tried that, even just in Finder? I strongly suspect that when you load something via an alias it uses the original filename in the application title bar.
Another thing to consider is that if you’re going to go with all of the overhead of digging into the project data and finding which UUID to look up, and manually creating aliases, wouldn’t at that point it just be easier to keep the file outside of Scrivener, and import the alias into the binder instead? That is what the File ▸ Import ▸ Research Files as Aliases... tool does, and the result of that way of working means keeping meaningful file names when editing.
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you are obviously right ! sorry for a stupid question
a great solution. thanks very much
Hello, now I am stuck having to use a MS Word file as a research alias. What would be the workaround since this does not seem possible. thanks in advance for your time and help
The “official” method via the menu command is limited, as it was felt that if we provided the ability to alias text files into the binder, people would confuse themselves into thinking it would be editable.
For those that understand it is a link to the original document, rather than one that has been converted into Scrivener’s internally augmented RTF markup for editability, one can create the alias elsewhere, and import that, normally, such as dragging the alias into the binder. This of course duplicates the alias into the project, and the original can be discarded.
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superb solution !! thanks so much !!!