Hi. Longtime Scrivener user here, and I was hoping to tap the hive mind about possibly upgrading my MacOS to a new system, and literally my first and usually only question when going to upgrade my Mac system is: will Scrivener run on it? Everything else is just frosting.
I currently have a 2020 Macbook running Monterey 12.6 (M1 8GB), and I’m using Scrivener 3, and it’s running smoothly. I backup and sync my projects to the hard drive and Dropbox and have had no issues for a long time.
I’ve lately been thinking of upgrading to a newer MacOS system, but as ever, I want to be cautious because of all the issues I see when a new system comes out. So I often wait until there’s an even newer upgrade and take the second tier one.
So, could I safely upgrade to Ventura or Sonoma without a negative impact on my Scrivener?
I’ve been running Scrivener on a 2020 M1 8GB MBA with successively Monterey, Ventura and currently Sonoma 14.3.1 without issues. Just make sure you have (a)
the latest version of Scrivener, and (b) a complete system back-up on a bootable external drive just in case.
Oh, and check that any of your other apps that you use regularly are up to date too.
I hope you have your problem sorted out. I have been putting off upgrading from Ventura 13.5.7 to Sonoma 14.6 until I can get some confidence in the upgrade without problems in my work. If anyone has experience please let me know. Making a backup and a backup startup disk on an external drive is not as straight forward as I would like. I have 2021 M1 MacbkPro16GB running Ventura 13.5.6.
Anecdotally (and I have no personal experience as I’m still on 13.6.8) it might be that “issues” that are reported are related to Apple CPU vs. Intel CPU devices. Apple’s M* devices seem to be what people are reporting problems with–which of course could or could not be related to anything in Scrivener. Just a hunch.
I too have been running Scrivener everything from 14.1 to 14.5 on M1 MBA and M2Pro Mac Mini (I wait till .1 has been released before upgrading to a new system) without any problems at all. I’ve upgraded to 14.6 on both, but life has got in the way of using Scrivener recently. I don’t expect any problems.
My MacBookPro and Mac Mini both running 14.5 have M1 processors and there have been no discernible problems because of that architeture with either machine.
