# Text to Folder -- Text Disappears

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126>\
**Category:** Scrivener for Windows\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [December 26, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126 "2021-12-26T04:54:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marilynx](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/marilynx/32/55_2.png) [@Marilynx](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Marilynx)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126/1 "2021-12-26T04:54:23Z")

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I had a text file.

My husband was monkeying with my computer. (Time to change the password)

Somehow, he converted the text to a folder. The text in it has disappeared. I can’t convert it back and I can’t find the text that was in the document before it was converted to a folder.

 ![Screenshot 2021-12-25 225809](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/e/9eb8afc4fbfbf1e7d7675a222c9527e0bea4f80d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![JimRac](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/jimrac/32/16153_2.png) [@JimRac](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/JimRac)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126/2 "2021-12-26T05:29:10Z")

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> [@Marilynx](#):
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> My husband was monkeying with my computer.

A few weeks ago a poster’s cat walked across the keyboard and changed a few Scrivener settings. This seems to be a similar case. 😾

> [@Marilynx](#):
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> The text in it has disappeared.

If you are referring to folder “Ruined”, from your screenshot I can see you’re in Outliner mode. In the Main Toolbar click the Outliner button (rightmost button shown below) to disable Outliner mode and display the text in “Ruined”.

![image](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/b/ebb9fc2117fd57e842421f70be9db9ab425e3d1b.png)

Best,  
Jim

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**Author:** ![Marilynx](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/marilynx/32/55_2.png) [@Marilynx](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/Marilynx)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126/3 "2021-12-26T05:32:45Z")

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Thank you. That fixed it. I hope that the other user did not have a cat-astrophe where his/her work was concerned.

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**Author:** ![drmajorbob](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/drmajorbob/32/15777_2.png) [@drmajorbob](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/drmajorbob)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2021, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/text-to-folder-text-disappears/125126/4 "2021-12-26T06:05:04Z")

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You should explore what the three view mode buttons do. Click them to your heart’s content until you know what they do; it won’t affect the content of anything.