Destructive Grouping

[Riley]

If you select one of the top-level sections in the binder -- Draft, Research, People, Places -- and then right/control-click to the context menu and select Group: The whole section disappears.

I have not determined any way to recover the section (though the documents in the section seem to be unaffected and can be imported into another project).

[amberv]

Ungroup acts more as you would expect. It dissolves the top level group and distributes the enclosed files to the top file. The problem is, at that point these files do not seem to be recognised by Scrivener. You cannot move them from the top level into other positions, such as into the Draft. They get stuck in limbo. As with the Group bug, you cannot get the top level item back.

You say the documents are uneffected and can be imported into other projects. What do you mean by this? When I used the Group method, they disappeared, and seemed to no longer exist.

[KB]

Thanks - this is a major bug, glad you caught it. (When I say "major", it's actually very easy to fix, but it is major from a user-perspective).

When I say documents are "unaffected", what I mean is that they haven't been deleted from disk. Unfortunately, because of the severity of this bug, you have lost the binder, though.

To recover any writing you have done, go to the .scriv file in Binder, ctrl-click and select "Show Contents". There you will see lots of .rtfd and _notes.rtf files, which contain your documents and notes (unfortunately the index cards are stored in the binder and will have been destroyed).

Thanks, I'm on to this right now and will release a fix in the next day or two.
KB

[dunx]

As an extra request - could you add a confirmation dialog to the Ungroup action? Its action is close enough to deleting a document that it probably needs one.

I hit it accidentally last night at a write-in when I was demonstrating my word count to the ML so I could get my star.