So, my set-up is that I have my Scrivener files (and all other work) on my Dropbox account. I work between a PC Windows 7 SP1 and OSX 10.8.4 (yeah, yeah, I need to update it). Everything works fine on my Mac, but when I close Scrivener there, and try to open the files on my Windows box, I get the error that “Scrivener project file not found”. I’ve tried this on half a dozen files, even ones I didn’t open on my Mac. One file, that wasn’t opened on my Mac, will open, but everything else that was opened on the Mac won’t. When I tried “import a Scrivener file”, it told me the selected Scrivener file was not a Scrivener file. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling. It might be worth mentioning these files have an identical copy from a different rate named “conflicting version.” But that won’t open, either. So I’m lost.
Halp? It happens to be my main project affected by this.
I had the same problem. Just bought a Windows 8.1 laptop three days ago (with some trepidation; I’ve been using Mac these last few years), synced my Dropbox files, closed Scrivener on my mac, and tried to open my main project on Scrivener Windows. Nothing happened. Didn’t even get an error message. I tried to open the tutorial and some smaller Scrivener projects and they all opened just fine.
I just found this post and noticed you mentioned the existence of Dropbox conflicting versions for your main project. I have those too for my main project that wouldn’t open, but not the smaller ones that opened successfully. So I deleted all the conflicting versions (made a copy first just in case) and tried to open it again… it worked! Don’t know why, but hopefully this will do the trick for you too?
Thank you! That solved my problem. I was having the same trouble too, and when I deleted all other versions that were hidden from view (I had to do a search in dropbox for “.scriv” to find other versions that I didn’t know were there) the project opened fine.
Also, I made the mistake of opening the same project on my Mac and then on my Windows laptop without closing the first. I realized this right away and closed the Mac app. But even then, for the next several hours, I could not access the project on my Windows laptop. I realized that this was the source of the problem only in hindsight–all my other projects opened fine, except the only one that I had once opened on both computers. Even after shutting down and restarting several times, nothing worked. Until I read this post and deleted the other versions.