I have Scrivener 3.5 for Mac and a friend of mine has Scrivener for Windows.
Whenever I try to open a file that he sends me, I receive an error message:
“file name” is the main structure file for a project, but other required files for this project could not be found: the /Files/Data and /Settings folders are missing.
No matter how the file is saved, exported, opened, or imported, I get the same error.
How can files be sent between computers so that they can be opened?
Thank you.
P.S. - I apologize if this question has been asked before, but the forum has no search function so I could not look for it.
To make sure that everything gets through, share a zipped file. (Of the whole project’s folder.)
If you set the backups to be zipped in options (Windows) / preferences (Mac), you can then send each other that backup file – it contains everything.
Some people collaborate on a project using a shared cloud and syncing through it. But be aware that you can’t be more than one person accessing and working on a project at any given time.
In other words, you’d have to take turns.
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The search function of the forum is at the top right, first of three icons where your avatar is.
My guess is that the Windows user is not sending you the actual Scrivener project, but only a constituent file within the project.
On Mac, Scrivener projects appear as a single item (.scriv) in the Finder. This is actually a package (a kind of clandestine folder) which is presented to you as a single item – very convenient. But on Windows, a scrivener project just is a FOLDER. Looks like your Windows user may be just sending you a file from inside that folder,* rather than the whole project folder. As has been suggested, have them zip up the whole folder and send it to you.
(*) Windows users who are expecting their project to be a single document are prone to mistake the index file of a project for the project itself.
