The files will open in Scrivener 3 (files originally made on an old version of Scrivener) but though I can see character card names I did, nothing else came over. It opens up into the novel template default text and outline, but everything else I know was in there is blank and empty! The main manuscript and character notes didn’t seem to come over.
This is on a Mac and the files were initially made on a Mac. How can I resolve this?
How did you transfer the project to this computer?
Do you still have access to the original computer?
And is the copy of the project sitting on your iCloud drive or in an active Dropbox folder? If it is in some cloud-synced folder, trying moving it to your desktop (or any unsynced folder) and open it from there. (You may otherwise need to change your cloud-sync settings so that your scriv project files are never stored “remote only” by your sync service – because that is one way to get the unsettling effect you are seeing).