I see that when I use the zipped backup option Scrivener create in the *.zip files some strange files. In the zipped backup I have:
– a folder called “nomefile.scriv”
– a file called “nomefile.scriv” (with 1KB dimension)
in the folder “nomefile.scriv” I have:
– a folder “Files”
– a folder “Settings”
– a file “Files” (with 1KB dimension)
– a file “Settings” (with 1KB dimension)
– a file “Snapshots” (with 1KB dimension)
– a file project.scrivx (with 3 KB dimension)
The files named: “nomefile.scriv” does not exist in that position in the original project
The files named: The “Files”, “Settings”, “Snapshots” does not exist in that position in the original project
Is this an older project created from a custom template? It used to be that projects did have their template artifact stored like this within the project folder; that’s been cleaned up with more recent versions, but it won’t cause any harm having it. The folder should be present in the original project as well, though, not just the backup.
I’m not able to reproduce this, so a few questions: Are you getting this only on a particular project? Does it happen on a newly created backup? How are you unzipping and viewing the contents of the backup?
There is an extra 0 bit file in the zip for every folder in the original. And I can’t unzip the whole file, I have to unzip each of the ‘real’ files one by one.
7-zip does not work to decompress files zipped from Scrivener and will result in 0-byte files. Could you please try using the built-in Windows extraction tool to access the backups and see what results you get?
If you’re still seeing problems, please let me know what version of Windows you’re using and what version of Scrivener (Help > About Scrivener). Thanks.
Yah, this is a known issue, if you aren’t using the Windows extractor (Shout-out to my Linux peeps.)
Backups will work just fine, but if you want to restore one, unzip the file, then delete all the 0 size files. THEN AND ONLY THEN open the backup in Scrivener. If you open the backup with 0-size files without deleting them first, you’ll lose data.
For the record, I never compress things (i.e. files I want to switch between computers) in scrivener–I’ll zip or tarball it outside, so I don’t run into this bug.
