I recently bought a new laptop, running Windows 11, and installed Scrivener on it. Previously I was running Scriv 3 for Windows on my old laptop with no problems, but since switching I have had a weird new issue.
Occasionally, while working–it seems to happen most often while I’m trying to find and replace text–it will freeze. The find and replace won’t work, portions of the text will vanish. Then the entire document will seem to disappear. It still exists in the binder, but when I click on it it just shows me a blank screen, and if I switch to Scrivenings mode for the containing folder it just doesn’t display that document. Restarting Scrivener solves the problem, but having to restart several times a session is pretty annoying.
My version of Scrivener is up to date and the new computer has better specs than the old one. Other than Scrivener I have Twitter and Discord open, and am not running anything intensive, so it does seem to be a Scrivener problem, not a question of my computer not having adequate resources.
Have you tried using the edit>undo command and can repeat several times. I have windows 11 on two computers and have not encountered. Also, do you have several projects and if so is this happening in all of them or just one. If just the one create a new project and drag the effected project files over to the new one and try find and replace and see if happens again. If not migrate everything and something may have been corrupted in the project. If only one project, then create a new one and move some files and try to see if behavior replicates.
Could yet be another case of antivirus misbehavior.
Might be that it is preventing Scrivener from accessing the files under the described conditions.
Try white listing Scrivener in your antivirus options/settings.
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Yeah, that’s exactly my thought. Certain antivirus software - McAfee seems to be particularly bad with this - seem to absolutely hate files that get updated on their own and not through “proper” channels. Those files then tend to get quarantined and suddenly, boom, your entire project is hosed. Fortunately you can just fix it by de-quarantining those files and then, as you’ve said, whitelisting Scrivener.
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