I made my first ‘Save As’ file for my current wip. I called it ‘Vamps17thApril26’ and saved it to desktop [see 2nd picture]. I then dragged this onto a USB stick and saved it on there. And I also uploaded this to Google Drive.
To access my Scrivener project normally (‘Vamps’) I just click on the Scrivener app I have on desktop. However, now I have ‘Vamps17thApril26’ saved on Desktop and then clicked, like I normally do, on the Scrivener app. I did that now, and as it was loading, the logo was super big, and then everything ON Scrivener is super big [see image].
I managed to navigate to File > Options > Appearance and tweak a few things, however, the bottom of the ‘Appearance‘ thing I cannot access. As in, I know there’s something down there like ‘apply‘ or ‘reset to default‘ but I can’t access it as the tab is too big and won’t let me move it or make it smaller.
I HATE how my Scrivener looks rn, and the icons for all the folders and texts are like SUPER big, like I can see the pixels of them! I also tried resetting the layers and my layer is currently on the default one, but again this doesn’t do anything with the UI font size and other things. If someone could send a snapshot of them going into File > Options > Appearance and showing me the little part at the bottom that says stuff like ‘reset to default‘ or ‘apply‘ or something I would be internally grateful! Then I can hopefully use tab to navigate through this!
If the “save-as” was to make a backup, better to use Scrivener’s automatic backup settings. I have mine set for saving to ~/Backups/Scrivener, as “zip” file, put date in file name, keeping 25 copies, automatic on project close or on “save”. See settings at Scrivener → Settings → Backup Tab.
If you need to move projects around, better to do so moving the zip’s rather than the full project folder (which contains scores/hundreds/thousands of files and folders).
As for all this messing up the the user interface, I don’t know.
Also if you have a multimonitor setup the different screen resolutions can effect Scrivener’s appearance.
On Windows, when you have monitors of disparate resolutions, switch screens by:
Maximising the Scrivener window.
Switch screens using Win+Shift+Left or Right Arrow, depending on where your screens are set up.
The only thing that doesn’t render correctly is the dropdown menu arrows, which are either noticeably larger or very tiny, depending on whether you’re switching to a higher or lower-resolution display.
Shift until the screen appearance looks better.
Dragging won’t give you the same effect, because you can’t drag a maximized window. It “loses” its maximization when you start dragging.
If you open Options fresh, and then press Tab twice, the selection should land on the Defaults button, which you can trigger with Spacebar. This will warn you in a dialogue, which you can press Return to submit.
That said, I cannot think of any setting in Scrivener itself that would make everything bigger, even the loading screen logo! This is almost certainly a Windows configuration issue of some sort, so I would only reset my Scrivener settings as a last resort.
Unfortunately I don’t know enough about Windows, and particularly high-res settings, to offer detailed guidance there. But I bet performing a more generalised search on the Web, rather than unneccessarily constraining the search to Scrivener, may help. Something like, “windows 11 one application huge icons text”.
I can’t help with Windows either, but on the Mac I got this effect when one of my cats triggered a “Zoom In” accessibility shortcut. Whether you have pets to blame or not, that would be a good place to start looking.
If you have a single monitor setup giving you an unwieldy effect, then outside of Scrivener and on your Windows screen: right-click, select Display Settings and in Systems > Display, which opens, in the Scale & layout section, select the Scale dropdown (not the arrow at the end of the cell) and ensure your display is set to the percentage with Recommendation alongside it.
Microsoft apps render properly because they’re programmed accordingly. Third-party frameworks, like the one on which Scrivener is built, sometimes behave badly. That said, I crash Microsoft apps quite regularly, while Scrivener crashes once in a purple moon and still goes through the motions of preserving my work to within one sentence. That’s impressive.
