I purchased scrivener. Thx for creating a great tool.
Is there a way to schedule an automatic, periodic Export?
I use a network backup tool. When I try to open the backup to verify it, scrivener shows a message box:
This project was either not closed properly or is currently open on another machine. Please note that if the same project is open on two machines concurrently, data could be lost. Before the project can be opened, its search strings need re-synchronising. This process could take several minutes. Continue?
Is it safe to click OK or will it overwrite the hard drive version I work on daily?
This sounds a lot like the backup tool you are using is scouring information from your live working area, and is thus capturing versions of your project while it is open. This is a common problem with Time Machine as well. A good thing to do is to make a habit of using the File/Back Up Project To... feature, which will produce copies of your project in a few seconds, while you work. This way, your backup engine will pick up these copies (which are not opened) and save them.
It’s not automatic, but that will be coming soon. 2.0 will feature an automatic backup engine that produces copies of your projects (there are a number of criteria your can select for how this works). Once you have 2.0 in your hands, you will have tons of backups available and your backup system will be able to use them easily.
Well, if it’s just a matter of needing to retrieve your actual text in an emergency, you could always just open the .scriv package (which I believe just looks like a regular folder on a Windows machine anyway) and then search for the proper .rtfd file and open that in a text editor. Obviously you don’t want to do this to edit files as part of a Scrivener project, but if your fear is just that something will explode and you’ll never be able to access your novel again even to bring it into a word processor and continue drudging through your writing there, you’re safe.
If backup follows the current backup method then the backup is a zip file that MS and Linux/BSD/AIX/Solaris/HPUX/*nix-flavor-of-the-day will open with no problems. Then you can access the directory structure to see individual files.
