I went through the tutorial a good while ago, and wanted to run though it again. I chose New Project > Interactive Tutorial (from Project Templates). I switched to Quick Start to see what that was about, then hit the - icon a few times (I didn’t realize it was a delete button), and accidentally deleted items in the Quick Start list. I was unable to find out how to restore them.
Also, I created a new project the same way, but the same items are missing from the Quick Start list.
I looked in the manual and FAQ, but was unable to find out how Quick Start works, in terms of restoring items. thanks
I’m a bit confused. I’ve tried everything from opening the Interactive Tutorial, to creating a new Project, and nowhere can I find anything called Quick Start, including searching the Help manual.
The Interactive Tutorial is an already completed Scrivener project designed to give you a tour of the application. You can change it, accidentally or on purpose, in the same ways you can change any other Scrivener project.
Quick Start is not a feature of Scrivener. It is a special collection of documents within the Interactive Tutorial project designed to provide a less detailed (and quicker) introduction to the app than the one you get by working through the whole Tutorial project. Sounds as if you were inadvertently removing documents from the Quick Start collection one by one. (They can be removed from the collection while keeping their existing positions in the Binder.)
You can always get a fresh and pristine copy of the whole Interactive Tutorial by looking for and trashing your existing copy (Tutorial.scriv) and choosing Interactive Tutorial again from Project Templates. Scrivener will bring up a dialog asking you where you want save the new copy.
The standard way to reset the tutorial is simply to delete it in Finder (in whichever folder you saved the file the first time you opened it).
Then go to the Help menu in Scrivener and select Interactive Tutorial (can’t remember the exact wording, but it’s obvious) and it will open a brand new copy.
Along with the other advice, I think the feature you’re describing is Collections. The Tutorial Binder item “Quick Start” you see is a Collection. Do a search in the manual and also there’s an interactive demonstration of their usage in the tutorial at Step 14.
I definitely changed the tutorial. What confused me was that the tutorial was listed as a template, and in every other program I’ve worked with, templates always would open in their original condition; not changed by the user. I just deleted Tutorial.scriv (as well as having to delete another version of that I’d saved with a different name, which became the basis for the tutorial template). Creating a new tutorial based on the template now works perfectly.
The other thing that set me off track, was that the “Quick Start” Collection (in the original Tutorial) had content from the Binder that was not contiguous, i.e., there were no steps 18-23. Turns out that was expected.
Thanks to everyone who got me straightened out, and now I can continue my Scrivener adventure.
Ah no. What confused you was that below what you saw are listed all the templates. What is pointing to the Interactive Tutorial (etc) is a blue arrow that’s marked “Getting Started”, and those aren’t strictly templates as such.
Is there any way (short of reverting to a backup), to undo deleted items in a Collection, i.e., after pressing the - icon and deleting an item, command-z (macOS) does not restore it.