Hello. I’ve recently purchased the upgrade to 2.0, but have delayed migrating from 1.54 on my personal Mac until I can try out 2.0 on my work Mac (where I have a second license for Scrivener). I copied over two projects – a novella and a short story – then opened and converted them to 2.0 format (I don’t normally keep my fiction on my work Mac so this is a temporary thing). The plan has been to sort out any migration problems on the work Mac before possibly upsetting my work flow on the personal Mac, causing myself unplanned work converting bits and pieces, etc.
So far so good. I like what I see with the new version; very nice job, Keith. One thing I did notice, however, is that my old 1.54 styles did not migrate to presets in 2.0. What I think happened is this: Since I created the 1.54 styles on my personal Mac, and not the work one, the styles did not migrate. I do have the formatting changes as expected when using the old styles in the two migrated projects, but I suspect this was not sufficient to cause migration of the styles to presets on 2.0.
Does this sound plausible, and would I find my styles migrated to presets on my personal Mac when I upgrade to 2.0 there, too (where the 1.54 styles were created)?
Thanks.
-Dan
Addendum: At second glance, my post may not be completely clear. Here’s what the 2.0 manual says should happen to 1.5x styles:
14.4.3 Formatting Presets (Styles)
Previously known as “Styles”, the new system changes the name to avoid confusion with
word processor styles, which keep assigned ranges of text up to date with stylesheets. The
new system improves upon the management of presets, and increases the reliability of
custom keyboard shortcuts when applied to them, by placing the styles into the Scrivener
menu itself, rather than in solely in toolbars.
The first time you run Scrivener, you old Apple Styles should be converted to Presets
automatically, and can be found either in the Format Bar, under the Presets… drop-down
menu, or in the Format > Formatting > Apply Preset > sub-menu.
So I think that my “Apple Styles” saved on the personal Mac did not migrate on the work Mac since my styles saved by Scrivener 1.54 never existed there – they were left behind on the personal Mac. My reasoning is that my styles on the personal Mac will be recognized when I upgrade to 2.0. Does this sound right?
As a side note, is there an easy way to migrate those old styles from the personal Mac to the work Mac? Not that I really need that now, but someone might need to do a migration to a new Mac and bring over the old “Apple Styles,” too. (Btw, I’d noticed my Scrivener styles showing up in WriteRoom on the personal Mac, so I guess the “Apple Styles” bit explains that mystery.)