A "do you really want to close project" option

Scrivener Scrivener for Windows
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I know Scrivener saves frequently but a “do you really want to close project” option would be helpful.

sometimes I minimize Scrivener to check something online, and instead of the minimize button, I hit the close button

I then have to wait for it to go through the automatic backup (which takes a while as my project is over 800 megs) before Scrivener closes and I can restart.

anything down the pipeline on this?
Perhaps for those that find this requester box annoying it can be ticked off?

thanks,

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I haven’t heard of anything like this, but there are a couple of things you can do right now to shorten the time to re-load Scrivener and be back to work;

  • Click the “Abort Backup” button. This will let you get Scrivener closed quickly so that you can re-launch it.
  • Turn off backups on exit, and enable the backup on “save” option. So long as you remember to do it, you can just click file->save, or CTRL-S to start a backup.
  • To minimize Scrivener, click on the scrivener icon in the upper-left of the Scrivener window, and select “minimize” from that drop-down menu, rather than using the buttons in the upper right as you have been doing.
  • To minimize Scrivener, hold the Windows key down, and press down-arrow (WIN-UPARROW restores, and another up-arrow press maximizes the window)
  • Yet another way to minimize Scrivener: ALT-SPACE-n

Hope some of that helps.

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I’ll have to remember those minimize keys

RE: Turn off backups on exit, and enable the backup on “save” option. So long as you remember to do it, you can just click file->save, or CTRL-S to start a backup.

I have it set two save every two seconds. won’t that do a back up every time?

I also do CTRL +S routinely since the blue screen crash (which hasn’t happened again, fortunately)
So I’d have to stop that, which get me paranoid.

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Sorry, I wasn’t very clear on what I meant. Under Tools->Options->Backup, there’s a checkbox for “Back up with each manual save”. That’s what I was referring to, and not the setting under General for "Save after period of inactivity: ".

Manually making it save when you have it doing so after a 2 second pause won’t do much against a blue screen, so that’s a habit you might consider letting go of; it’s mostly pointless unless you type non-stop for hundreds of words at a stretch. Two seconds tick by faster than you might believe (just look for the asterisk in the title bar; if it’s not there, your changes have already been saved to disk).