Been using B35 and have been impressed with the performance. However, I’ve noticed that it will periodically quit when I’m not using it.
For example, if I tab out, or switch windows, when it comes time to go back into Scrivener, I can see from the pinned icon in my taskbar that the application is not running. I can launch it without issue, and the document I was last working on is presented. I have no yet experienced any lost work.
Not sure what else I can say, given there is no error message presented.
Okay, happened again, and I checked Task Manager… and it’s in there. If I alt-tab, Scrivener is actually still open. It’s just the pinned taskbar icon that is showing it as closed. I’m unsure whether this a Windows problem, or a Scrivener one?
Check the options. Scrivener 3 has an option to shut down after a certain period of inactivity, default 30 mins. I think i’s on by default, butyou can turn it off or change the duration of inactivity.
If this is the case I would beg them to change this. It’s a nice option, but I would have it off by default. I sometimes spend hours researching and have scrivener open to take notes.
And if it were off by default you’d have people saying “It should be on by default; I’ve just got to my office and just discovered that I didn’t close my project last night so can’t work on it today, which I need to do as I’ve a deadline looming,” as there have been in the past. Having it on by default is the safer option from that point of view. Perhaps L&L can find a way of making users more aware of it.
Let’s begin by telling me where to find it. I’ve spent about 10 minutes searching in the options and couldn’t find it. Even tried searching the manual and still couldn’t find it.
Dropping into Scrivener to take a note resets the activity clock, though. And since it’s a “normal” shutdown – not a crash – relaunching Scrivener will take you right back to where you were, just as if you had closed the program yourself.
I strongly recommend that anyone who uses Scrivener across multiple devices enable this option, to reduce the risk of synchronization errors.
