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[kewms]

I believe Ioa commented extensively on your discussion of the Import and Split functionality, here:

Project search returning matches in documents not present in my project

None of that is true, so I would say there is some other cause. What happens when you import: The original file is read from the disk and passed through a conversion library from its original text format into Scrivener’s internal file format. Which library is used depends on the file format. There is a Java-based converter for ODT, but if you don’t have Java installed it will fallback to the system converter. For DOCX it uses a bespoke converter. For and RTFD the system libraries are used, a…

He also offered troubleshooting steps for your search issues, here:

Clicking on a project search collection brings up the selected documents but selecting one does not perform the find or find next

I’ve about 8 collections in a project. But when I click on one of these saved project search collections, and then on a document in the found set listed below the collection name. It highlights other words, from previous searches, not the search string for the current collection. Oh, and the find next (Command-G) function does not work. This is true of all of my search collections. The project is simple, has 15 documents in the manuscript. No formatting to speak of. No pictures. No bookmarks. …

If the search function were indeed as catastrophically broken as you suggest, we would be seeing a lot more reports about it than we are.

Again, if you believe you have encountered a bug, please open a support ticket with detailed reproduction instructions and, ideally, a demonstration project.

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