Splitting/(Moving parts of) Projects

Scrivener Scrivener for macOS
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Not sure if this is a help request or a feature request :slight_smile:

Is it possible to either:

a) Split a project into two projects. Ie I have a book I am writing ‘Cheeses of the World’, and I suddenly decide that I need to break the project into ‘Cheeses of the New World’ and ‘Cheeses of the Old World’. Would like to be able to just make a project out of one half of my current project.

b) Move whole heirachies (folders, folders in folders, files in folders in folders etc.) to a different project? So I decide that ‘Swiss cheese’ was really invented in New York, so I want to move the whole ‘Swiss cheese’ hierarchy to ‘Cheeses of the New World’.

(NB I am not actually writing about cheese. Sorry if I piqued your interest.)

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Create a new project. Drag whatever you like from the old to the new. Done. – Katherine

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I tried that, and couldn’t get things to drag!

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Are you able to drag things from one location to another in Finder?

You can also use Finder or Save As to duplicate a project, and then delete all the components that you don’t want. But dragging should work.

Katherine

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I can drag them along from one part of a project to another part of the same project all day. What I can’t do is drag them from one project to another.
That duplicating thing sounds good tho! Basically doing the same thing in a couple of steps. Cool, thanks.

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Hmm. What version of Scrivener is this?

Also, are you dragging research files, or just ordinary text? From one Binder to the other?

Katherine

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Version 3.1.1 Macintosh

And I am trying to drag folders with text files in them from my Draft folder in the binder.

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Huh. Should work fine. I just tested with my own copy.

Could you send a copy of the source project to my attention at mac.support@literatureandlatte.com?

Katherine

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Well, I would, except, after your post above, I went back and retried it and it works now. I think maybe the issue was that now I have all my windows merged, whereas before I was trying to move from window to window?

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Dragging from one window to another is what I did.

In any case, glad to hear you’ve solved it.

Katherine