Thank you.

I have an ever-growing project. There are thousands of items. Checking off combinations is tedious. It would be cool if I could save different groups of compile items for different purposes.

You could use the Scrivener file as a repository using a versioning system, updating it on a schedule to avoid conflicts and otherwise writing in something else or another Scriv. project, committing finished parts to the repository.

Or not.

This happens only sometimes for me. I'm using High Sierra 10.13.6, 2011 MacBook Pro.

I have the same issue, but I find Lunk is correct. My machine is old, my project has 5800+ items and I have little memory. Scrivener takes a long time to open/save/close (esp. if you backup the project on close) in such circumstances.

Given the limitations you've stated, KB, maybe a trimmed down version would work. Is it possible the background document color could be used as a workaround?

There are many things Scrivener can do. KB says there's n one way to use it and to completely avoid any feature you like or use them as you please. There's no best practice for writing but what works for you

These days, I use Scrivener exclusively for my poems. Originally, I did as was desbribe din the first post. I also used keywords to make lists of kinds of poems. Eventually, I used so many features that the project would load slowly or lock up. I simplified. Now I number them and put them in folders...

I have this same error, but I have not had the data loss. I store the file that has shown the error on my Mac only. Closing and re-opening the file usually makes things return to normal.

Maybe this helps track the issue.

I mean a mix of larger files with smaller ones.

I'm on the Mac and see the same. I have 5300 files in one project. Splitting the files down doesn't work--that's where I started. A mix works, though.

To clarify, I have a project with 1000+ document with keywords. I want to copy the keywords for those documents from one project to another project with the same documents, but without keywords, so I don't have to go file by file and add them. I have tested this and find no way to copy keywords from...

I have been able to select all similar style and make the changed I wanted. I thank you all for your help. Solutions have been found! I would like to point out KB has always indicated no one need use all of Scrivener's tools. So if I wanted to style everything by hand, flying in the face of the new ...

Say I had document A and document B both of which were viewed in Scrivenings mode. Say also that I had copies of document A and document B, but the difference is they have keywords. If I wanted to copy the keywords to the first set of documents from the second, could I copy and paste them? Would tha...

The reason is that "Styles do not apply" and the issue is definitively one of size after my latest efforts. Section types & layouts are not the issue, nor styles, just that my file is too damn big.

I broke it in to 100 doc chunks and everything works as expected.