Getting started today, I was cruising along when I discovered that something looked a little off. I thought I was getting closer to my daily target of 1667 words. When I looked up at the little hint of a bar on the bottom of the scene title block, the bar wasn’t as far along as I expected. I hovered over the box and saw this:
I had started a new project from the NaNo template for this year and found this target word count odd. It may be my fault, for having tried to ‘update’ my word count last night while trying to smoke test everything before getting started today.
Update: just after I posted this I updated my word count from within Scrivener and got the confirmation popup, but it said my current word count was zero.
When I had finished my session I updated again, and instead of 1710 words it told me my current word count was 1355, the previous count.
Is it reporting the word count before update, or not allowing the NaNo website enough cycles to update before querying the current count?
The count passed to NaNoWriMo(dot)org was correct for both updates.
The returned number on the second pop up was the pre-update word count both times.
Process flow: Project → Update NaNoWriMo word count. First popup, select “update” wait, second pop informed me my current word count is x with an ‘ok’ button. Only x was the correct word count prior to the update.
Word count on the Nano site was updated successfully.
And in case I misunderstood your query the first time…. The word count was correct. The Scrivener word-count-target was inflated. The word count sent to Nano was correct. The reported “current word count” returned from the update routine showed the correct word count BEFORE the update that just ran.
Hopefully that’s clear as mud. If needed I’ll see about better visuals later if need be, but I’m at work right now.
