[update 1.9.8.0] Project targets borked?

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While the update went smoothly for me overall, it seems to have borked the “Project Targets” feature, which is not registering a lot of the files in the manuscript, whether they are marked for “include in compile” or not. It was working fine on all projects prior to the update, which I know as it is a feature I reference a lot. Both the “Manuscript Target” and the “Session Target” are giving very wonky results. In the “Session Target”, in fact, it is showing negative numbers.

Example of Manuscript Target issue: there is over 30k words in the collected files as of last time I checked, but now it is only showing that there are 1,087.

Example of Session Target issue: It seems to be showing the whole word count(?) in the negative, that is, “-30,037 of 500 words”.

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I’m having the same issue since the update.

My draft target is now short of 4688 words.
My session target has -4688 words which I can’t get to zero out

I tried pasting 5000 words into the MS. Then resetting the session target once it had climbed past 0. Then I hit the reset button but it went back to -4688 words.

ETA: Going through my individual scenes I’ve found two separate scenes which although they show 11k and 14k characters respectively, each only shows a count of 1 word. These two scenes make up the -4688 word count issue.

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I thought it cleared up but now it’s doing it again – this time giving me negative starting “session targets”, that is, instead of starting a session target at zero it is starting it at -716. I’m pretty sure the manuscript target has gone off again, as I wrote 500 words yesterday but the total word count went DOWN by -23. ???

Any idea what is going on? Or when it will be fixed?

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I doubt they gonna fix it in 1.9… What I really hope is, that they would make the targets work in v3.

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Dear Writing Friends,

I just updated to Scrivener 3.0.3 and keep having problems with the Project Targets.

Here Scrivener shows me 2,404 words in the whole project (yes, I know, quite at the beginning):

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while the Progress Window insists on just 455 words counting towards my overall goal:

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I have been trying quite everything to get this fixed, with no success.

Best
Freddy

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Freddy, since you’re using the beta version (Windows v. 3.x), it might be most useful to post this in the beta testing forum. There seems to be a thread there on this topic, though it is a couple of months old.

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It looks like, to me, Freddy is using Mac.

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Yes I do. I’m running Scrivener 3.0.3 for Mac under macOS 10.12.6.

I just contributed to this topic in the Windows forum so I wouldn’t need starting another one.

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That’s not really how it works around here. You should post in the appropriate forum, even if that means starting a new topic, as what seems like the same problem could actually have two totally different causes between the two sets of code.

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Thanks for letting me know! I will procede as recommended.

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Exactly what i was opting to say.