I’m new to Scrivener and would love some assistance with using it with Dropbox if anyone was willing to help. My primary writing tool is my MacBook Pro. But I want to be able to write on my iPad Pro when I can and, to a lesser extent, my iPhone. I think I’m overthinking how the syncing works. When I try to save in Dropbox, it gives me a warning. Should I be saving it in a folder on my Mac instead? Any help or guidance would be appreciated. My apologies if there is an obvious solution…I just don’t want to lose my work. Thans so much!
First of all, welcome to Scrivener and the Scrivener community!
Who gives you a warning – Scrivener or Dropbox? And if it is Scrivener, does it actually warn you not to save your project to Dropbox or not to save your backups in the same Dropbox folder?
Backups should be saved not in the same place, so that might be a reason for a warning.
By the way: Automatic backups should be turned on, and I recommend you to at least turn on Backup on project close and Backup before syncing with mobile devices too. And saving the backups as zip files allow you to securely save them anywhere, be it local or in the cloud. And if you are not short of disk space of whatever kind, don’t set Scrivener to keep just the last few backups.
You could of course save a project on your Mac and move it later to Dropbox. To sync the mobile version of Scrivener and on the Mac must use the same Dropbox folder.
Very important: The projects must be set in the Dropbox app to be local and not just on the Dropbox server.
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When I save a new project, I save it in my Dropbox/apps/scrivener folder.
My scrivener global settings do automatic Backups, as zip files, to my personal OneDrive.
That way, you have backups stored with a different provider.
Please re-read and follow instructions at Dropbox Syncing with iOS / iOS / Knowledge Base - Literature and Latte Support to get started. Also documented in the Scrivener Manual.
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