Newbie Scrivener user (bought and installed July 15th) asking a question about the Interactive Tutorial
I tried to open my interactive tutorial, but while the structure seems to be there, NONE of the pages or folders have any text in them.
None. Zip. Nada.
In Scrivening, Coarkboard, and Outliner - all blank except for the titles.
As I clicked around in the Binder, I noticed some of the pages in later folders seem to have lines on them (indicating content), but when I click on them, they each become a blank sheet of paper in the Binder tool and there is not a single word on them (asides from the title in the header bar/top of card) in any of the three views.
I do not think I have hidden all the text somehow, but that is somehow possible…
Where can I get a new copy of the tutorial to see if the issue is with me / my setup or with the tutorial file itself?
I tried going to the help menu, but the backup version of the tutorial on my computer seems to have the identical issue.
PS: sorry I sent a PM to an admin (?) called KB about this, but I had trouble seeing how to raise an issue in the forum - if you are reading this, this means I just figured it out … right after I sent the PM
It might be the creation process was interrupted or something, it definitely sounds like you need a new copy, from your description. It’s easy to do so, just delete the “Tutorial.scriv” folder (which is what all Scrivener projects will look like) and all of its contents from wherever you saved it, then use the Help menu to create a new copy (or the Getting Started panel). When you used that menu command before, it was simply using the version you had already created on the disk. The help menu only makes a new one if it can’t find the old one.
Tacking onto Ioa’s comment above, the default location for saving new projects, including the interactive tutorial, is your Documents folder. If you don’t remember where you saved it, check there first. You’re finding and deleting this outside of Scrivener, just via the Windows file browser; then back in Scrivener you can select the “Interactive Tutorial” option again and it will create a new copy.
I found the offending folder and eradicated it with the relish of a new best-selling author deleting that first painful rejection letter from an obviously ignorant editor/publisher…! 8)
Oh, and conventions? What? Here? I suppose going wildly off-topic is a bit of a convention. You’ll find a helpful answer on page 1, and click to page 27 to read a heated ongoing debate about whiskey.
Deleting the tutorial folder completely and letting Scrivener recreate it seems to have done the trick.
I suppose going wildly off-topic is a bit of a convention. You’ll find a helpful answer on page 1, and click to page 27 to read a heated ongoing debate about whiskey.