I have several projects and this error only occurs on one of them. The error pops up whether I manually backup or it attempts to auto backup. I save my project files to a USB drive and backups to OneDrive. I have no issues saving the files primary project files to the USB. Even switching the backup location, be it cloud or local, produces the same error. What’s more, there is no such temp location.
Again, this is only happening to one of the five different projects I have going. Which, in and of itself, is odd.
Under Project Settings, I have each project set to save to in a custom project folder within my general backup folder. I have tried unchecking it to see if it would save to my general backup folder, but I still receive the same error. Even when I switch my general back location to my local drive it gives the same error.
My backs are set as follows:
Options/Backups: OneDrive/Scrivener Project Settings/Backups: OneDrive/Scrivener/Project Name
Try to save as your project with a slightly different name (just add a few x’s at the end of the name) and see if this new version works. (?)
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It could be your USB storage. Perhaps test with a local copy of your project.
(I too have all my projects on USB. No issue. But I know there could potentially be a problem caused by system interrupt.)
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Another thing : do you have foreign material (research files or whatever) in your project folder for this specific project? Stuff that you would have dropped there, not imported via Scrivener.
To answer your earlier question, I do have a couple images, but nothing else.
My USB is D:\ and I’ve tried saving it locally to my C:\ as well as in D:\ both inside/outside the Scrivener folder.
In my USB, saving inside the Scrivener folder but outside the project specific folder it gives the first error. Outside the Scrivener folder gives the second error.
The second error also pops when saving any/everywhere else.
Perhaps at some point you manually moved a .scriv folder (a project) inside your project ?
Scrivener won’t let you do it, but you could do it manually. (A bad idea, but doable.)
In file explorer, search the folder of your problematic project for a .scriv folder inside it.
If you find one, move it out of there. That would be your problem – most assuredly.
I don’t edit my folders once they’re created, outside of the odd renaming, if needed. I have no reason to. I only have a settings, files, and project file within the project folder. Same as my other projects. Looking into the settings and files folders shows no ‘.scriv folder’.
I don’t have any issues saving my projects within my USB. They auto save with no issues. I just cannot uncerstand why the backup has randomly stopped working when it was backing up fine a few weeks ago.
If your current project doesn’t use specifics (likes styles and whatnot), meaning you just wrote and used standard formatting etc,
create a new project, and either drag everything from binder to binder with the two projects side by side, or use File / Import / Scrivener project.
Whatever you do, first thing after the import would be to test backup.
Wish I could help more, but I am clueless as of your issue.
No worries, you’ve been plenty helpful and I appreciate your assistance.
I’m of the mind that since there’s no issue with other projects, I should be able to create a new project without running into this issue. I’ll try the methods you outlined first before going the more tedious route.
