I have installed Scrivener 3 on a new iMac and connected it to Dropbox to work on the projects I have already done with Scrivener 3 for Windows. I have changed systems and computers. The new Scrivener does not open the files I created with the Windows one. It tells me that they may be old documents, which is not true because it is Scrivener 3 in both cases. It seems that a binder.scrivproj is missing. I need to know how to recover the projects in my new Scrivener for MacOS. I need to do it urgently because I have a lot of work done.
The most common cause of this error is incomplete synchronization. Dropbox (or another service) “helpfully” “optimizes” your disk so that part of the project is stored exclusively on their server, where Scrivener can’t access it.
More information and what to do next can be found here:
https://scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb/cloud-syncing/errors-opening-projects-stored-on-dropbox
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