BACKUP MESSAGE

I KEEP GETTING THIS MESSAGE SINCE I SET UP MY NEW COMPUTER. I HAD BACKUPS AND FILES ALREADY ON DROPBOX AND TRIED TO JUST KEEP BACKING UP THE FILES THERE. I GOT THIS MESSAGE. SO I SET UP A NEW FOLDER AND SET THE BACKUP TO GO THERE. I GET THE SAME MESSAGE. THE SET UP IS FIRST LEVEL, APP FOLDER AND INSIDE THAT IS SCRIVENER, MY ORIGINAL BACKUP FILE AND NOW ANOTHER FOLDER, SCRIVENER 2.

“PROJECT IS NOT SAVED INTE THE RECOMMENDED AVE LOCATION
THE PROJECT LADY IN THE LAKE…SCRIV IS STORED INSIDE ITS OWN AUTOMATED BACKUPS FOLDER. THIS COULD POTENTIALLY RESULT IN DATA LOSS IN THE EVENT OF AN AUTOMATIC BACKUP TRYING TO OVERWRITE THE CURRENT PROJECT FILE. IT IS THEREFORE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THAT YOU CLOSE THE PROJECT AND MOVE IT TO ANOTHER LOCATION.”

WHAT DO I DO?

THANK YOU,

You are saving the backups in the same folder where you saved the live project. Direct the backups somewhere else, in Preferences.

For more information: scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb … tion-error

Katherine