My wife, Catherine, has become an invalid and can no longer sit at her Mac. She has arranged to work with a writer friend to finish the book she’s been writing.
I’ve offered to package up Catherine’s Scrivener Project for the hand-off. I’ve found the folder with her Project and MANY related files. Since I’m not a Scrivener user, I’m seeking guidance on which files comprise her Project.
Also, does moving a Scrivener Project from a Mac to a Windows PC require anything beyond copying the Project files?
In Scrivener on the Mac, use the File → Backup → Backup To command. Check the box to create a ZIP backup. Send that to her friend. Hold onto a copy until the friend has confirmed that they’re up and running.
Here also is an article on working cross-platform. The main thing to be aware of is that the project will appear to change once it is on a PC, going from one file to a folder of many, no matter how you transfer it (the above zip method is always the safest). That is how it is on the Mac too, but the Finder hides that fact.
So to put it another way, on the Mac the project will appear as one single file in Finder. Anything around it is not a part of it or necessary for it, but if it’s all organised into one area with extra research files and such, it might be worth clarifying whether they will be of use to the overall work.
Also if you have use File > Import files as research shortcuts, you will need to send those files to the PC and reconnect them for the research files as shortcuts to work as will not connect back to location on the Mac.