Ack! Lost all work from yesterday

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Hi all - new to boards, but not to Scrivener. I’ve used it to write my last 3 novels and am currently working on book 4.

Yesterday, after a very successful day of writing, I closed my project, then copied and saved it to my various backup drives (usual procedure).

When I opened the project this morning, all my work from yesterday was gone. The back up files are mirrors of the same file. I’m about to tear my hair out. :frowning:

Process when I start in the a.m.:
– I open the previous day’s file
– I back it up to the same folder with new date: projectname-09-08-09.scriv
– I move the previous file to the archive folder and then work on the current day’s file.
This morning, I did exactly that. But, my 09-08 fie and now, 09-09 file have none of the 2500+ words I wrote yesterday nor any of the new notes. It’s like it’s reverted yesterday’s file before I started writing.

Any thoughts, clues? Commiserations?

I’m running Snow Leopard on a MacBook Air; on the latest update of Scrivener (1.53).

TIA,
Maria Lima

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And you don’t have any recovery folder or anything like that? Have you checked the in-project trash?

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Carradee, thanks for the quick response - yup - nothing in the in-project trash. Not sure what you mean by recovery folder.

The project never crashed or anything. Just when I opened my file from yesterday - it didn’t have what I had written yesterday. :frowning:

I’m going to keep looking through all the dated files, just in case…

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SUCCESS!! Was totally not Scrivener issue but over-tired writer issue. Seems when I did the “backup project to” yesterday, I somehow deleted the date/time stamp and overwrote an older version of the project.

Found it (gratefully) using spotlight and looking for a particular phrase I remember writing yesterday.

Sorry for the first post unnecessary angst, all!! (I’ve been lurking a long time, but just registered).

I think I’ll crawl back into my garret and write.

Cheers,
Maria

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Glad you found your file Maria. Thanks for clarifying.

Hope book 4 continues with successful days of writing!

All the best,
David

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Maria,
Thats great news :slight_smile: Ill bet you`re mightily relieved.

I`ve just read ‘The Butler…’ Enjoyed it immensely.
Take care
Vic

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Clicked in the window, replacing the selected “Save As” name with whatever you clicked, probably.

I’m glad you found it!

Sorry that I never replied again; I had my own settings/data angst today with a web app at work. Took most of the day to figure it out.

-'Dee