mass delete acts/chapters/scenes
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Decisive Rabbit
I made a mistake in a outline import. I had 70 chapters. Now I have to sit here for 30+ minutes archiving each scene, (1 per chapter) then delete each chapter 1 at a time. I understand its to prevent accidentally deleting it. But situations like this is frustrating where I WANT to delete it. Can we have a checkbox that is checked and we type "I AGREE" to deleting this content , warning that it is not recoverable?
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Garnet Egret
I am in doubt that anyone with any say in the matter will see this, but you get both my upvote and personal complaint letter to the management, lol:
Please add bulk archive/delete for scenes and chapters in Plan view. You can protect it by explicit confirmation dialogs that cannot be triggered by keyboard input alone. For permanent deletion, require typing a confirmation phrase such as "Delete all 33 scenes"(My current carpel tunnel nightmare...). Current one-by-one deletion is very slow for cleanup/import mistakes.
I made that mistake when shifting an apocryphal chapter I was using as a learning tool into its own novel so I could continue doing that without contaminating the story I was trying to write. Now, I have a wall of text separated into scenes, rather than scene beat prompts, and Control+A in this ui only takes a single paragraph at a time, even if that "paragraph" was a single sentence. This is quite annoying, and I hope there is an update rollout in the future that addrssses both problems.
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Zaffre Chicken
Going through exactly the same thing right now