Hi.
Someone on the Scrivener Facebook group suggested fellow users to look at the “Text Based Icons” feature, and when I was playing around with it, there was a prompt to enter text. I tried entering text, such as “Dice” and “Plane”, thinking that it would give me pictures of those objects. However, it was only later that I realised it was literally creating icons of these words typed out - so the icon would literally be “DICE” or “PLANE” and those words are now permanently located here in my Scrivener UI here: Documents > Change Icon > “Text Based Icons” and there appears to no way at all to remove them. Can someone please tell me if there is a simple way to remove them? If not, can you please fix this for future releases? It has created a bit of a mess. Thanks.
Reset the “Text Based Icons” where you’ve used them in the Binder to their default, using the Reset Icon to Default—see the top of the Icon contextual menu. Once all have been reset in the Binder, the ones you created should fall away as options in the menu.
Sorry, it’s not that I can’t reset the icons to their defaults in the binder. It is that I cannot delete the text based icon names from the list is the UI. They are permanent burned into the program’s list here: Documents > Change Icon > “Text-Based Icons”. I think someone from Literature and Latte needs to see this. Pretty sure it is a bug. There is no way to delete the created text-based icons from the list.
I answered you based on my experience with icons pulled in from Manager Icons in the Icons contextual menu.
I agree, it appears to be the same on the Windows version. The text-based icons don’t disappear, even when restarting Scrivener. I also don’t find Icons in the Application Support Folder.
EDIT: I reset my preferences and reloaded the preferences file I had saved. Nothing changed.
Thanks for confirming.
In the end, I discovered that the only way I could get rid of this on my mac was to open the preferences text file (com.literatureandlatte.scrivener3.plist) in a proper code editor like BB Edit and find and delete “{Dice} & {plane}” from the file. Boy - what a mess!
Great, thanks. I’ll search out something similar.
Just to mention, on Windows searching for the word DICE brought in an icon from emojis which I don’t like. Most Windows emojis look like a destitute cousin when compared to Apple and Samsung’s offerings.
Hi, Amber. I got trapped by this bug, and now have unwanted text based icons in my “text based icons” list across all projects (so it doesn’t actually appear to be in the project file). Can you please tell me how to remove these on a Mac on latest version of Scrivener? Thanks.
I’ve split this to a new post in the Mac area, because the Mac version never had the bug you referred to, which has since been fixed on Windows. On the Mac, the text-based icon entries only appear in the menu if they are found in use by a project you’ve opened, or if they are found in the Recent list. So if you stop using one in all projects, then it will naturally go away once you’ve used other icons enough for it to drop off the Recent list as well.
Once they are found (in either the current project binder or the Recent list) they will be listed globally for the duration of the session. So that’s something to keep in mind, you would need to restart the software after removing all traces of it.
Alright, so that’s the way to flush it in Windows, too. There are a maximum of five icons in the Recent area of the Change Icon contextual menu.
The solution is:
- Make sure the personalised icon is not allocated to a Binder item of any project.
- Select any Binder file or folder and allocate one of the standard Scrivener icons to it up to five consecutive times using the Change Icon process.
- The unused icon drops off the Recent list in the Change Icon menu forever.
- Select the Reset to Default Icon option to reset the icon you’ve been doodling with.
That’s a good point, I’ve moved the thread to general Scrivener discussion as the solution should be the same on all platforms now.