Session Word Count Anomaly

[TromboneAl]

Can anyone account for this anomaly—I’m worried I lost some text somewhere.

1. Before lunch I had exceeded my session target
2. After lunch, I duplicated a scene and deleted the text in one copy of the scene.
3. My session word count was now below the session target. It should have been near 1,000 but it was only 555.
4. I restored a version from Time Machine, and found indeed that the word count had been 28,025 at 5 AM (before I woke up), and it was now 29,026.

IOW, the session count is about 500 words less than it should be.

Can anyone account for that?

Thanks.

[anon56864026]

A possible explanation in this Manual excerpt taken from Section 20.1.1, Project Targets:

[…]If you delete lots of text, session statistics will not start showing any progress until you have written as much again—it is perfectly possible to have a negative session word or character count! In other words, it shows your net gain dur- ing the session. Additionally, the session target only counts text that has been typed or pasted into a main text area, it does not count imported documents, duplicated sections, appended text and so forth. The basic rule of thumb is that if what you did to add or remove text was done inside of the text editor, then it will be added or subtracted from the count. If you used menu commands to move, generate, duplicate or copy text then it will not be counted.
If you find yourself in a situation where you want to start fresh, because the counter is off, you can use the Reset button above the Session Target progress bar to reset the counter to zero.[…]

[TromboneAl]

Yeah, that’s probably it, and it rings a bell. Thanks, SC. I can relax now.

[KelliJaeBaeli]

well YOU might be able to, but i can’t. Mine doesn’t reset. I need to have to option to reset it–if not after I’ve deleted text, then at least when I open Scrivener for my next session. My negative number just stays there.
Any solutions to this?

@scshrugged

If you find yourself in a situation where you want to start fresh, because the counter is off, you can use the Reset button above the Session Target progress bar to reset the counter to zero.[…]

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[anon56864026]

@KelliJaeBaeli

well YOU might be able to, but i can’t. Mine doesn’t reset. I need to have to option to reset it–if not after I’ve deleted text, then at least when I open Scrivener for my next session. My negative number just stays there.
Any solutions to this?

@scshrugged

If you find yourself in a situation where you want to start fresh, because the counter is off, you can use the Reset button above the Session Target progress bar to reset the counter to zero.[…]

The portion of my post which you’ve quoted is a part of the quote which I’d posted from the Mac Scrivener manual. Windows OS is listed as your platform in your profile details. Are you running Windows or macOS?