Mon Sep 26, 2016 11:05 am Post
Mon Sep 26, 2016 8:24 pm Post
Tue Sep 27, 2016 4:56 am Post
lunk wrote:A Project view wouldn't work on the Mac, because it would require me to keep all my Scriv projects in just one predefined folder. But I have many more projects than the ones I am currently syncing with my iPad. So doing a search in Finder and checking the green Dropbox sync symbol gives me the same info, but covers all folders, irrespective of where I have them.
Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:25 am Post
devinganger wrote:A project page that allowed the user to define "look at these folders/sub-folders" would be quite useful for many of us.
Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:30 am Post
Briar Kit wrote:File > Find All Projects In Spotlight
…presents all projects in a single page.
Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:59 pm Post
lunk wrote:Briar Kit wrote:File > Find All Projects In Spotlight
…presents all projects in a single page.
I did a Spotlight search for .scriv and clicked the Documents tab, which showed all my roughly 120 Scrivener projects in Finder. I could then sort them by date. Very handy.
Tue Sep 27, 2016 9:16 pm Post
Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:10 pm Post
lunk wrote:devinganger wrote:A project page that allowed the user to define "look at these folders/sub-folders" would be quite useful for many of us.
If there was such a possibility, you would have to define it in Settings. I bet some users would one day suddenly save a project somewhere else, and when they opened Scrivener next time and looked at the Projects view, the project would suddenly have disappeared! So they would mail support and file a post in this Forum, screaming for help because Scrivener had suddenly deleted a whole project.
Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:29 am Post
lunk wrote:You can use the search function in explorer in a similar way, right? search for *.scrivx
Wed Sep 28, 2016 5:11 am Post
devinganger wrote:unless KB decides it's a worthwhile feature, it's not happening.
Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:27 am Post
markfasano wrote:devinganger wrote:unless KB decides it's a worthwhile feature, it's not happening.
I'd say the moderator's response to the OP is a good indication it's not happening, which is too bad. The projects page in iOS Scrivener was a step in the right direction, in my opinion.
Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:29 am Post
rdale wrote:lunk wrote:You can use the search function in explorer in a similar way, right? search for *.scrivx
Yes, you can. You can even save that search as a "favorite" so that the Windows file browser (confusingly called Windows Explorer, not to be confused with Microsoft's Internet Explorer). I've done that with the target being my entire hard drive, and set the view of that search to include modification time, so that I can quickly sort by either name or date modified.
And by searching for *.scrivx files(and not *.scriv folders), you can double-click on any one to immediately open up the project. Just be sure to use the built-in Scrivener backup functionality (Tools->Preferences->Backup) instead of Save As to make backups. Also, use the backup setting to ZIP compress all your backups so you don't accidentally edit them.
Both Mac and Windows provide this functionality built-in, and mastering how to search certain folders, or your whole computer, is a valuable skill for anyone using those types of computers that will serve you well for a lot of other needs aside from finding Scrivener projects.
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