My story has seemingly duplicated my word count beyond what I have written. And, I can’t find where the overage is that is being wrongly counted.
How do I find the problem? I have checked all of the folders and none of them are inflated.
Look at the compile status of files outside the manuscript. Have they inadvertently set to compile?
What is telling you that the count is inflated? The project statistics counter? A compiled document? Something else?
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It shows the amount at the bottom footnote strip, and when I go to the statistics tab it show’s it as well.
Derek
If it is a matter of duplication, then that might indeed be what happened at some point (as in, one of the shortcuts listed in Documents ▸ Duplicate ▸ ... accidentally being pressed).
Try selecting a sentence or so in your text, that has been there for a while, and copy and paste it into the Project Search tool. Do you get two hits? If so, select both in the sidebar, and then use Navigate ▸ Reveal in Binder, to see where they are.
Chances are you’ll find two identical copies of everything in two different places.
(If by ‘duplication’ you mean that more casually, like there is simply more but not near or precisely two times more, then you might need to hunt around for the excess text a bit more than my test above would suggest. If it is a full duplication of the Draft folder, then any old sentence will be duplicated, but not if just one or two chapters were.)
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Use Outline mode and enable the Word Count column to see all the component documents of that Scrivenings session and how large they are. Either you’ve duplicated document(s), or you’ve accidentally duplicated text within a document.
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