Yesterday my search function just stopped working (the top right hand corner field that searches a whole project)!
The Command F search works within each individual bit of text but obviously that is not a feasible substitute. Does anyone know how to fix this / prevent it happening again?
Iâd check the settings first, there are some that could make it seem as though it isnât working at all, like limiting the search to Keywords if you never use them. Click on the magnifying glass and run down the list of options, making sure everything looks sane.
If that looks good, then reset the search indexâcould be that got messed up at some point and without that it wonât find anything. Click on the File menu, hold down the Option key, and choose the âSave and Rebuild Search IndexesâŠâ command, which will appear. If that was the problem the fix should be immediate, no need to reload.
Scrivenerâs search is not working partly.
The text in the current draft is about 260,000 words, synced external directory with hundreds of markdown files.
Since sometime, the result of searching only some text or folder.
I Save and Rebuild Search Indexes in the menu and adjusted all of your search options several times, but Scribnerâs smart search do not work.
Most of the search, only some documents appear. I feel many old documents do not appear.
Below is a screenshot that clearly shows the current situation.
Scrivener cannot display this document(named filetype plugins) in left binder, but highlight search word(javascript) in a document.
The text highlight function doesnât pay pay attention to most search settings. You could see a result like that if the search criteria omits that document for some reason. For example if this âfiletype pluginsâ file is in the Research folder and you have search settings set to âSearch Draft Onlyâ, or if âSearch Excluded Documentsâ is toggled off.
Hi folks- My problem with the search function echoes some some of the other posts Iâve read, but is really more elemental (I thinkâor at any rate I am a less advanced user!)â
Putting a word in the search bar will show me to the files that word is found in, but if I select one file it wonât bring me to the spot where the word is foundâlike it used to do reliably until a few months ago! I have put up with massive scrolling, till I could hand-locate that pink highlighted word, until now when my dissertation chapters are coming due and my chapter docs are like 70 pages + itâs not a tenable way to go.
Also if i use command F to search, i get no returns. I put in the word âtheâ and it says ânot foundâ. I tried following one personâs directive to reset the search options. The person wrote to click on File then hold the Option key til it gives a certain option⊠I donât have it in front of me ATM but holding the Option key didnât bring up any options.
I must have some problem with settings? Any ideas how to attend to this are super appreciated.
The stuff you are talking about wouldnât reset the Find tool I donât thinkâthat isnât strictly speaking a project toolâitâs kind of shared even by the whole system to a degree. If you search for âtheâ in TextEdit you may find in Scrivener it starts searching for âtheâ as well. Needless to say itâs a system tool, but we do have some control over it.
Before doing anything more drastic, Iâd just double-check your find panel settings. Make sure you donât have âSelection onlyâ mode set or something. Iâve done that beforeâwondered why Find wasnât working and realised I was searching in selection with no selection. Check all of those settings.
I do recall the thread you refer to; it was never conclusive that resetting the projectâs UI file really helped, or what was even wrong in the first place, but if you want to give it a try and the Option-File trick isnât working you can always do it manually:
Close the project.
Right-click on it in Finder and Show package contents.
Drill into the Settings folder.
Drag the âui.plistâ file to the Finder.
Load the project.
Prior to do so, you might want to save your settings to a Layout via the Window/Layout/Manage Layouts⊠feature, because doing that will nuke all project view settings. Columns, splits, everything. No data, but everything about how you view it.
Photoshop has had an off-by-one-pixel cropping bug since the late â90s; I donât get your question. Assuming there is a problem or bug, where else would it be but in the places where software has code to make features, and where more so than where it has lots of code.
At any rate, Iâd need a good deal more information to help you out. Settings in Cmd-F are right on the surface of the panel, so I would imagine youâre not asking for help in finding those. Project search settings are found by clicking on the magnifying glass, as in most programs.
That is the Project Search bar. What do you get when you click Edit > Find > Project Search?
The grey text in the search bar changes if youâve selected one of the options on the pull down list â youâve chose to search just in Synopses, which is why you see the grey âFind Synopsisâ. Otherwise, itâs just blank (I think - or maybe it says âAllâ or similar), but itâs always the Project Search bar: its scope is always the entire project, filtered by the options in that list.