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What you have made so far was a new project. A manuscript you have piled up in Scrivener can be moved over whole as well.

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Hand over the whole .scriv folder

In Settings, open Import in the Project group. Drag the whole .scriv into the drop zone under Import Documents. Hand over only the .scrivx file and pensiv sends it back, saying “A .scrivx file only holds the outline”. The text is scattered in the Files folder beside it, so the outline file alone gives you nothing but titles. On macOS a .scriv is a package, so Select Files catches it too, but on Windows it is just a folder, so you have to use Select Folder.
The Import tab in Settings. The dashed drop zone shows “Drag and drop files or folders here” and the supported-format note, with the “Select Files” and “Select Folder” buttons below.
The Import tab in Settings. The dashed drop zone shows “Drag and drop files or folders here” and the supported-format note, with the “Select Files” and “Select Folder” buttons below.

Drag the whole .scriv folder into the Import tab.

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What lands where

The Binder’s order and nesting come across as they are. They arrive in the sidebar held in one folder named after the project.
  • Synopses become the document Description
  • Document notes become Notes
  • Labels and status become the project’s Labels and Status. If one with the same name exists, that one is used
The Scrivener trash does not come across, and images and PDFs with no text are skipped.

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What your old words are called here

Grab several documents in the sidebar with Shift or Cmd/Ctrl and switch the view toggle at the top right over to the document side, and the ones you picked run together as one set. From the same place, choose Export → Combine and they become one file in HWP, DOCX, EPUB, TXT, or Markdown.