Lately (perhaps since the Scrivener 3 and following updates) I’ve noticed that the scrolling sometime becomes synched between both editors. When I scroll down on the right hand editor, for example, the left side also moves with it, making me lose my place in the document. Same when I scroll in the left side.
I haven’t found a way to resolve this. I have tried disabling “Typewriter Scrolling” but it doesn’t make it go away.
The weird thing is that it doesn’t happen all the time, so far it has been a pretty “whimsical” behavior.
There’s nothing in Scrivener that would do this, so my best guess is that something weird is going on on your system. There is no “synchronous scrolling” feature in Scrivener, and scrolling is all handled at the macOS level, not in Scrivener (Scrivener just puts a view in a Mac “scroll view” which handles the scrolling via Apple’s code). So I’m afraid that I cannot think of anything that would cause this in Scrivener itself - as unhelpful as I know that is for your problem.
I had a problem like that a few years ago. It seemed to happen exclusively when using a device that would trigger Apple’s inertial scrolling—either a trackpad or their mouse with the multitouch surface, and it happened more often when scrolling rapidly. I haven’t seen it for a long time though—I’m not sure why, either from macOS updates or hardware firmware fixes maybe.
I was about to edit my post to add that the problem stops when one of the editors is on page layout view, and that I was using a Magic Trackpad 2 on an iMac.
It seems to be worse when I swipe or scroll rapidly on the trackpad. You may have given me a valuable clue here to try to solve this very annoying issue. I will report back if I am able to fix it.
Disabling inertial scrolling in Mac’s accessibility does take care of the problem, but then you lose the benefits of inertia altogether, which is not ok.
Yeah, I tried turning it off as well back when it was really getting in my way—but I came to the same conclusion you did that overall scrolling suffers too much without it unless you’re using a scroll wheel.
Just a thought: MSFT Office products used to have a synchronize scroll option. If you have one of their products (or another with same) and the feature is available, could it be possible the feature is selected there and somehow after you stop working in Office the feature is ‘sticking’ in macOS’ cache?
Hi all! I’ve just downloaded Scrivener 3 and started having this issue–changed nothing else about my OS, just updated Scrivener. Has there been a fix for this yet? It’s super frustrating!