What you actually need (no offense intended) is to stop everything you are doing, go back to square one, and learn the basics off of at least the tutorial project.
Especially look in the manual fort the part regarding project(s) management.
All of this is because you’ve got this part set wrong.
I have detailed what’s happening to you, and why. I have demonstrated it, too.
Yes, I think you are right about that. Maybe I need to take a week off and just do that. Hopefully, 7 days or so are sufficient. I’ll give it a try. In the meantime, I found this interesting: Scrivener Alternatives (2023): Are They Any Better?
Should not take you but about a half-hour or less, following all the help provided here (free of cost to you!) to get it setup correctly.
Otherwise, feel free to move on to other products and their support community.
OK, thanks for taking time to respond.
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Amazing article. (Not)
She says:
“But does it ever hit you that you’re overpaying for the tool?
You’re forking out something just short of $50 to use features you can find in relatively inexpensive or completely free tools.”
Then lists a bunch of softwares that are more expensive… ??
(Perhaps it’s just me who hasn’t quite woken up, but it looks odd to me.)
It is in your best interest to pay attention – and maybe take screenshots of – any “strange warning” that happens to pop up. Without further information, it’s impossible to say what’s going on.
The most common cause of “strange warnings” leading to “an entire scene has disappeared” is a synchronization error. But, again, without more information there’s no way to be sure.
I’m sure it’s entirely coincidental that the first three suggestions – all of which cost more than Scrivener – all have referral links.
Those are the authors who really should fear AI (or even “AI”). Because most of the natural stupidity is vastly overpaid.
Surely coincidental. Yes.
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Ok, here is the latest warning:
Well, here is another one. I got the same message yesterday, and I clicked Continue. Today I’m not clicking anything as I am in total “learning mode” until this is sorted out. Taking the suggestion to show what I am looking at, I hope this will stimulate discussion. For the record, what I am trying to do is have one copy on the computer and one copy (each) on two different thumb drives or a grand total of three copies altogether.
The answer is you cannot have a Scrivener project open on two devices (more than one device) at the same time. You are progressively destroying your work in progress as the two machines try to resolve sync issues and interchangeably save subsequent updates on each.
Just for grins, I ejected the two thumb drives with what I believe are backup copies. When trying to open the program I am greeted with this message…and wonder how does one “mount a volume”
Unfortunately, I can’t copy or take a picture of it that shows up. I only get this link. But I will try to describe it.
The document "Backside Of The Clock 2021-11-13 14-25 2021-11-13 14-34 2022-10-07 07-59 4
could not be opened. The volume “SAMDATA” couldn’t be mounted.
Mount the volume and try opening the document again. Below that is OK in white letters on a purple background.
But strangely enough, when I insert either of my two thumb drives, and open the program, my project opens up just fine on both of them. Seems to be lost on the computer…
Ok, that sounds reasonable.
Even with the thumb drives removed, the project won’t open up on the computer.
Removing the thumb drive is not the same as closing the project; you have to close it first, then properly eject the thumb drive.
Likewise closing a project, if it’s in Dropbox or any other cloud folder, is not enough; you also have to wait for changes to sync to the cloud.
When you open a laptop or boot a desktop, you have to wait for synchronization down from the cloud before opening the project.
If you’re sure that you’re doing all that, give it another think and be double sure.
I’m guessing that the version you are trying to open is stored on the thumb drive. So no, of course you can’t open it if you eject the thumb drive that contains it.
Scrivener’s Recent Projects history is not helping you here. I would suggest opening projects exclusively from Finder until you figure out where everything is.
Thank you for those comments.
This may be cheating…but I asked the same questions to ChatGPT and it gave me an eight item checklist that cleared up everything!
