Special circumstances, Fred. I was, and will be collaborating with a friend over translations from Chinese to English — if you’re interested, see Short story translation — and it’s Chinese that is the problem. Qt, which is what LAP uses in programming the Windows/Linux version, uses one of the legal ways of addressing the upper areas of UTF-8, and X-Code, used by Keith for programming the Mac version, uses the other. Actually, the Mac can read both, but it saves in its version, and if a Scriv project that has been worked on on a Mac is opened on a Windows machine, the result is gibberish. So, as my late 2010 has only a 256GB SSID which is 75% full, I haven’t got the space for a Bootcamp installation of Windows, and I can’t really afford a Windows licence, leave aside the cost of VMWare or Parallels, so Crossover to the rescue.
For everything else, I use the Mac version … I’ve been using it since late 2006/early 2007 — I see I joined the forum in January 2007, so I was already using it then.
That must be a Linux matter, as using a WinXP bottle, I can navigate anywhere to save and open files — our joint project is actually in a shared Cubby. No problem at all there.
Mr X