Just…be careful…when using OneDrive, even on modern versions of Windows 10. I have seen OneDrive corrupt Scrivener projects even when the “Always keep files on device” option was checked on parent folder of the Scrivener project. I have not been able to produce corruption on demand, and it is VERY rare, and these are Scrivener 2 projects converted to Scrivener3, but nevertheless, be careful.
I also don’t use OneDrive for Business as the OneDrive backend, because it’s based on SharePoint and I have to deal with SharePoint and SharePoint online corrupting OneDrive libraries all the damn time. (I’m one of the Office 365 global admins at work and while I mostly avoid ODFB and SPO, I can’t always duck fast enough.) That corrupts documents enough with Word 2016 – I’m not giving it a shot at my Scrivener projects.
The OneDrive advisory should probably be updated, as this part is no longer true:
The OneDrive client once again has the ability to create stubs of synced files on the local file systems so that the directory contents and file metadata show up in Explorer, the shells, and to file APIs, but the actual file data is only synchronized in when required.
A) No cloud sync system even Dropbox is perfect. All of them will have problems if you do things like open files on two systems at the same time. They all need you to do things like make sure sync is complete before moving the other machine…
B) I have been using OneDrive for Business for my Scrivner Project for 6 months now. No problems. I back up to my OneDrive Consumer. I do 90% of my writing on one machine. but have at a time needed to use the machine that was with me.
C) As said, WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint… do not use the Windows /One Drive Sync engine. They use their own calls doing partial file updates and issues can be reduced by turning off caching in the Office Upload Center apps. So Word issues, which I have had happen and still do at least once a week have little bearing on the Other systems that save to the local drive and then are sync’d.
D) While I would not recommend doing it, For Grins and Giggles, I opened an old Scrivner project that was 100% on the cloud, without having Windows bring it down… It took a couple of minutes, and looked stalled out on the search.indexes file, then continued, but when the project opened, it was all there. The current system of virtualized files is much better than the old near hack of the the stub files. And it would be incorrect to equate it the old systems. That said, I would NEVER do real scrivener work before forcing the entire Scrivner project folder to be kept local.
I have started writing under MacOS. Mojave 14.5
I still write on Windows 10 1903 also.
Using Windows Vers 3 Beta 20.
Using Mac version 3.1.3
I am using OneDrive For Business to Sync between them.
I am finding currently that it’s less than 2 minutes in most cases before the local copies of my Scrivner projects are fully synced…
They open perfectly as I move between the two OSs.
Full disclosure: I am running both OSs on the same i7 16GB HP laptop. One of the driving reasons is that I also FOR NOW write in Final Draft 11 for screenplay work. The Windows version has developed a nasty CPU eating bug that support is pretending is normal.
Final Draft is cross-platform in its license and I have discovered that MacOS running a VM with my screenplay uses less than 3% of the CPU when open. While the current buggy FD 11 for Windows will sit there and burn battery at 20+% just open. . It will cut the battery run time in half or more over the normal battery life. And when plugged in just keeps the machine hot so, for now, I need to use Final Draft in MacOS. So started using Scrivner there too.
Just saying. The sync engine on current OneDrive is very solid over where this thread started in the past.
When Scrivner 3 Win releases I am going to write a big Mac vs Windows FD vs Scrivner review.
Hello- Brand new to the forum and I am currently using MS WINdows 10 with Office/Word 365. I back up on OneDrive. I have completed my manuscript, but Word has done some crazy formatting things that I cannot figure out. I was thinking of getting Scrivener- Can I specify the format I would like the manuscript to be n and then import it into Scrivener, polish, copy edit it, and then export as a properly formatted Word doc for my publisher to formally edit? Thanks so much- I am new to this and just getting my feet wet, so to speak…
But I’d recommend taking advantage of our free trial and looking the the interactive Tutorial project (from the Help menu). Scrivener is very different from Word, so people looking for a Word replacement sometimes find it frustrating at first. literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/download