I followed the instructions to open a new project with the new NaNo project template, hoping to be able to use the built-in “Update NaNoWriMo” feature. No luck. The purported entry in the Project menu doesn’t show up. I also tried the trick of manually editing an existing .scrivx file to add NaNo=“Yes” to the ScrivenerProject tag, but the menu item still doesn’t appear. Out of curiosity, I checked the .scrivx file of the one created from the NaNo template and it doesn’t have NaNo=“Yes” anywhere in the file.
Has anyone else gotten this functionality to work? My Scriv is up to date (3.0.1) but I can’t get this to work.
Link to the template download: NaNoWriMo Special Trial Edition | Literature and Latte
Text from the template’s explanation of how to use the word count reporting feature:
Updating Your NaNoWriMo Word Count
You can update your word count on the NaNoWriMo servers from within Scrivener. Here’s how:
Make sure you have set up a writing project for the current event on nanowrimo.org. You can’t update your word count to a nonexistent project!
From the bottom of Scrivener’s Project menu, select Update NaNoWriMo Word Count.
When prompted, enter your nanowrimo.org login details. You’ll only be asked to log in the first time you use the feature. (Note that Scrivener does not store your user name or password, and they are used solely for connecting with the NaNo servers.)
Once Scrivener has connected with the NaNoWriMo servers, it will show the name of the current project and ask you to confirm that you want to update the word count. Click “Update Word Count” to do so.
That’s it! (Of course, the first time you do this, you will probably want to head over to your account on nanowrimo.org just to see the magic in action.)
Simply return to this menu item whenever you want to update your word count.
(Note that you can only update your word count while the event is in progress. If NaNo hasn’t started yet, or if it has finished, you’ll be told that you can’t update your count.)
Using “Update NaNoWriMo Word Count” with Other Projects
The “Update NaNoWriMo” feature is only enabled by default for projects created from the “Novel (NaNoWriMo)” template—projects such as this one! The menu item will not be available for other projects. If you would like to use a different template for your NaNo project, however, you can enable the feature in other projects with a little extra effort. Please visit the below Knowledge Base link to find out how:
At this point, what can I do? I will try creating a new project from the template and copy all my files over. Maybe this will work.