Help! Downloaded update now Scrivener won't load

[glosfor]

And if the underlying issue lies outside of Scrivener, there’s a good chance the fix does, too.

If you are referring to the “Warning: QSettings: RegEnumValue failed” problem, you can see (what I believe to be a version of) the source that is causing this here (scroll down to line ~248).

The fix is relatively straight forward. As I mentioned back in February:

The registry is basically a database, and any application running on the computer might be adding or removing keys at any time. Getting a ‘count’ and then walking ‘count’ keys runs the risk of someone having make a change between the two operations. A better approach is simply to keep calling RegEnumKeyEx, incrementing the requested index until ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS is returned.

While it might be interesting to know specifically what is causing this, perhaps it would be sufficient to repair it. At a minimum, it seems like a check for that specific return code in this routine should suffice:

if (res == ERROR_NO_MORE_ITEMS) break;