One other thing I discovered. The stray wrong files being created every time just came back if I deleted them through Dropbox. They didn’t if I deleted them in Scrivener iOS. All working now I think. Looking forward to an iOS version update at some stage.
@kewms can confirm, but that is how Scrivener and Dropbox works and is intended to work. By deleting the files in Dropbox you are messing with the internals of the Scrivener file system which is not recommend at all since Scrivener needs to keep track of all the files and folders in a Scrivener project. On macOS, these files are presented to the user in Finder as a macOS “package” which further discourages messing with the internals. That being said, sounds like Scrivener has some sort of mechanism to bring back files it detects are missing–not something I was aware of.
Too much or any “messing” with the files will probably result in a corrupted project which may or may not be recoverable except from backup.
The conflicting versions are created by Dropbox. Until you resolve the conflict, it’s just going to create them again.
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There’s definitely something wrong with my MAC system. This morning it gave an error upon opening appearing that it didn’t sync with what I had done on the iPad. So the last option it gave me to open was the last time I had worked on MAC, I opened it anyway cause I did very minimal things, but when opening it was all synced up and then placed recovered files in a different folder, (the documents that I had changed so I don’t need them).
It’s also carrying over the word count, I’ve done since this all started happening, so up the top where it has the scene title, you hover over it and gives the word count. eg, last night I did 100 words but it’s showing 1.6k which is roughly how much I’ve done since I’ve tried to FIX the original issue.
I have no problems syncing or anything using my iPad, so if I’ve done something on the MAC, it appears fine when opening it on iPad, no errors.
I’m about to loose my mind. Everything that I can see LOOKS normal.
At this point I’d recommend the cleanup process @Dain suggested. Note that steps #3, 4, and 5 create backups. Don’t skip these, as the remaining steps essentially clear your Dropbox out so you can start fresh.
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