I’m using Windows 11. I wrote several courses in Scrivener a few years ago. I can’t open any of them.
When I go to open recents, there are no recents, and I understand that. I did make some Scrivener backup files, but I can’t open anything in that folder either.
Can someone please tell me which file I should open to get back into my course(s)?
I’ve been trying to open any of them for the past couple of hours.
David Duty
On Windows you will see a “[project].scriv” folder and inside of the folder will be a file called “[project].scriv” and that is the file to open.
If you must seek backups look first here:
[Main OS Drive Root] → Users → [Your User Folder] → AppData → Local → LiteratureAndLatte → Backups
From there you should see ZIP files of your backed up projects. Unzip the [project].scriv folder out and you should be able to open that in Scrivener.
Note: AppData is a hidden folder by default, but you can access it by shoulding hidden files/folders or by typing in the path directly into the file manager path bar.
All that said, you mention its been a few years – and the forum software shows me a helpful hint that your last post here was six years ago – and I feel a need to ask if you have altered your computer in any way, like replaced the storage or done some deep level drive cleaning… but I won’t. If you have the most up to date Scrivener for Windows installed then it should open any of the formats from six years ago including the 1.x Windows release.
Sorry for the late reply, but I’m in the process of a major move. I will get back with you on this. Thanks again for taking the time to replay.
for future reference in File > Options > Backup you can set your backup folder to be anywhere which is easy to find like in a desktop folder. I keep all my Scrivener open projects on my C drive in a Folder called Scrivener,