One Book, three Acts, many Chapters, many more Scenes…
Acts 1 and 2 are perfect. All scenes within act 3 are broken.
I’ve been flirting with danger.
First, within Scrivener I dragged all my scenes into a single folder, as I was doing high-level editing and wanted to see subplots at a glance. Added subplots as Scrivener keywords. When I went to sync I had some problems, but got them straightened out. I seem to remember losing Events in Aeon and having to regenerate them (painful). Also, Act and Chapter folders were set to ignore in Aeon. Since I could not do Subway View using Scrivener keywords, I duplicated all my keywords as Arcs and Subway View became beautiful. After much editing and shuffling or deleting scenes, developmental edits were complete.
Second, I wanted to reassemble Acts, Chapters, and Scenes into their original hierarchy, which is where I am now. As I selected each Act or Chapter in Aeon (left side) I reset the “ignore” status (right side) and selected the proper item from the list. Act 3 was on the list, but none of the Chapters within it were. I had to tell Aeon to make new Folders in Narrative.
Weird stuff: Scenes in Act 3 do not show up in Narrative, but they are there in Timeline and within Scrivener’s binder. I can select a Scene in Timeline, and tell it to create a Narrative Event. The Corresponding Scene has been in the proper Chapter Folder in Scrivener, but Aeon wants to put it directly under my top-level folder in Scrivener. When I sync, Aeon moves the scenes within Scrivener to the top-level folder. If I drag them back in Scrivener, Aeon wants to sync. When I do the Scenes vanish from view on the left side of Aeon, but are in the right place in Scrivener. Oh, the scenes are still in Timeline (but not in Narrative).
I tried putting Scenes into Narrative as Events, then dragging the Scenes within Narrative from the far right, into their proper Chapters in Narrative. When I sync, the status goes from green to green and tells me to sync. Of course no amount of syncing will ever make the green go away.
In short: I select a Scene in Timeline and tell it to become a Scene in Narrative. I sync. If I try to drag the Scene to the correct Chapter in Scrivener, the Scene vanishes from Narrative and the left zone in Aeon, but is untouched in Timeline. If I try to drag the Scene within Narrative, it works but wants syncing. When I sync, the status stays green (wants to generate a new Scene), but does not Sync.
Info in the right column appears identical between Act 2 and Act 3 (except for the names).
Info in the right column appears identical between the last Chapter of Act 2 and first Chapter of Act 3 (except names of course, and Position says “Book 1, Act 2, Chapter 44” versus “Book 1, Act 3, Chapter 45”, which seems perfect).
Help!
I suspect Aeon has some internal status it’s not showing me (and is messed up). And this makes Sync act broken.
Thanks a million.
Scott
