# Dropbox problem from Mac to PC

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/dropbox-problem-from-mac-to-pc/24459>\
**Category:** Scrivener for Windows\
**Tags:** support\
**Created:** [November 20, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/dropbox-problem-from-mac-to-pc/24459 "2013-11-20T16:10:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![NJK](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@NJK](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/NJK)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2013, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/dropbox-problem-from-mac-to-pc/24459/1 "2013-11-20T16:10:14Z")

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Hi,  
I can’t open a saved make project from my PC. I deleted the duplicate project that people have said causes a problem and still nothing. What I get is a dialog box and then a new project file sometimes opens.

Cannot access… Then ……name of drive Project name etc…… Scrivener.scriv.zip/name of project scrivener.scrivx

File is not writable: Access is denied  
Auto-saves needs write permission to your project

I tried from Dropbox and from Dropbox on my harddrive. When I tried to from Scrivener non of the files showed up in the Dropbox folder.

Any ideas ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/amberv/32/13021_2.png) [@AmberV](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/AmberV)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:53am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/dropbox-problem-from-mac-to-pc/24459/2 "2013-11-21T05:53:52Z")

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To be clear, it sounds like you are trying to load the project straight out of a zip archive, and that won’t work because you can’t write to a zip archive—hence the warning that you can’t open a project in a read-only environment. Have you tried copying the “my project.scriv” folder out of the Zip and to your Desktop so that it can be worked on?

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**Author:** ![NJK](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/9d8465/32.png) [@NJK](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/NJK)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/dropbox-problem-from-mac-to-pc/24459/3 "2013-11-21T14:45:02Z")

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Thanks AmberV…I just had to unzipp all and there it was… thanks again