For some reason, Scrivener on my iPad seems to have duplicates of older versions of my projects on the device itself, in addition to the projects (with the same names) in Dropbox that I work on in MacOS. I don’t remember copying them to my ipad. Is it safe to delete these duplicates that are ON MY IPAD? I want to make sure they aren’t tied somehow to the newer versions in Dropbox?
Is it safe to delete these duplicates that are ON MY IPAD? I want to make sure they aren’t tied somehow to the newer versions in Dropbox?
As safe as it ever is to delete data, I suppose. Myself I would copy them over to the Mac and make sure nothing in them with recent modification dates is unique, before doing that. And even then I might just zip them all up and archive them to play it safe. I’m very cautious about throwing things away though (for real). Bytes are cheaper than the misery of recreating something from scratch that you once thought you wouldn’t need.
But to answer your question, no, there are no mystical linkages between projects or anything of that nature. They are all self-contained.
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Check Mac OS Scrivener’s automatic backup location by going to the Scrivener → preferences → backups pane. That would be one possible source of the copies.
(Scrivener will throw an error if you put backups and live projects in the same folder, but not if one folder is a child of the other.)
I thought that as well, but they indicate the duplicates are in “offline” storage, not in the Dropbox area, which throws a wrench in that theory.
Never hurts to know where they are though, and to double-check that the backup folder is safely away from working areas.
Oh, one thing I did just think of: if you ever in the past disabled sync, I believe it asks you whether to keep or delete the local copies. The former choice would result in a full duplication of your projects in the Dropbox sync folder, after you enable sync again and run a full download.