I have Scrivener on my laptop but have recently acquired a PC, which I will be installing Scrivener on. I used the free trial on my laptop but now want to transfer all my files from the laptop to my PC, where I will now be working. I can find my written chapters within the “Docs” folder ready to transfer across but I can’t find my ‘research’ files anywhere.
Is it possible to access the research files outside the ended trial version of Scrivener, and where? I don’t really want to buy a licence to use on my laptop just to access these files ready to transfer to my PC… where I’ll have another paid version of Scrivener, if it can be avoided.
Just to underline what lunk said, whatever you’ve done in the trial version should be perfectly accessible to the paid version on the new PC. (And the license you purchase will be good on both computers; L&L doesn’t make you buy a separate license for each machine like some software companies. )
Scrivener organizes its work internally in terms of “projects,” and each “project” is arranged as a folder with the extension .scriv, and a series of subfolders and files beneath it. It is rarely, if ever, wise or useful to operate directly on those files and folders outside of Scrivener. Just find the .scriv folder (which you will likely have named in some way to reflect the name of your project) on the laptop, and copy the whole folder over to the appropriate place on the PC, using a flash drive or Dropbox or your home network or however. Scrivener should be able to open everything there, and the research files should be intact.
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