Hello all! I’m revising an old novel draft I made several years ago with Scrivener 1. It contains feedback I received at the time from some readers in the form of comments or footnotes on the relevant documents.
However, I can’t figure out where those comments are after migrating to Scrivener 3. They seem to be there, in the form of links, but clicking them leads me nowhere, and they don’t appear as comments or footnotes on the inspector.
Any ideas on why is this happening, and how to fix it? Many thanks in advance.
Those should upgrade correctly (I just ran a quick and very simple double-check). If you have an excerpt in v1 format that we could try upgrading to reproduce the failure, it might help us at least fix the bug, or maybe suggest a way to fix them.
More to a present solution: for a lot of stuff it is safe to copy and paste between versions, and that includes text with attached inspector comments and footnotes. If for some reason that doesn’t work (or you have thousands and want something more automated), the Format ▸ Convert ▸ Inspector Comments to Inline Annotations (and the opposing command in v3 once upgraded) should get them over. The downside of that approach is you lose your highlight ranges since annotations have nowhere to store that info, so it they just end up attached to the nearest word to the left.
Thanks, @AmberV, for your prompt response. I created a small project too to see if migration of comments and footnotes should work, so something weird must have happened with the particular backup I’m using to migrate to v3.
Anyway, copying and pasting worked good enough for me, so I’ll use that workaround as a solution. Thanks again!
