Scrivener stores projects where you put them. If you don’t want a project accessible to Dropbox, don’t put it in the Dropbox folder. If it’s already there, you can use Save As or Windows Explorer to put a copy in another location.
As pointed out elsewhere, a project “in Dropbox” actually has a copy of itself on every system that has access to that particular Dropbox folder. In addition, I recommend directing Scrivener’s automatic backups to a location other than Dropbox, to protect you from Dropbox-related disasters.
As noted, a project full of blank pages generally indicates a synchronization error of some kind. It’s difficult to answer more specifically without more information; have you tried emailing our support address?
Incidentally, all versions of Scrivener – iOS, Mac Scrivener, and Windows Scrivener – use the exact same project format. Any differences you see simply reflect how the particular operating system displays things.
It’s nice to see I’m not the only one in whatever small minority there is of people who don’t fall in love with a Mac at first sight. I got a MacBook Pro just so I could use the “better” version of Scrivener and Vellum. So far it’s had the effect of making me go right back to Scriv Windows. It doesn’t look particularly better to me and so far I haven’t needed any of the features it has that Windows doesn’t.
I do use the Mac for Vellum because I have to if I want to use Vellum (wonderful ebook formatting program by the way), but I can sure see how people can’t figure out where anything is. Probably I’d have the same problem with newer version of Windows, but since I’ve been using it for a long time, I know how to thwart the built-in supposed helpfulness that tries to put things where the system designers think they should go, hide identifying file extensions, etc.
Syncing between iOS and Windows/Mac Scrivener versions does use Dropbox. However, one cannot “randomly” pop between the iOS version and the “desktop” version. It’s not possible to sync automatically when you pause on the iOS version*, so you have to sync changes manually EVERY TIME you pick up or set down your iOS device. In other words, a sync has to happen before you start work on the IOS Scrivener, and you have to sync the IOS version when you want to go back to a desktop version of Scrivener.
This is unlike how it works when you share a project using Dropbox on two PCs; in that case, the syncs happen automatically, without any extra work on your part; you just have to close the project on one PC (and let Dropbox sync between both computers) before you can start work on the other.
[size=85]* I don’t know the details, but I assume that they would have implemented automatic syncing in the background if it were possible on iOS without messing up your Scrivener project. As I understand it, this is the only workable solution, unless Keith stripped out the feature (from all versions of Scrivener) allowing importing of non-text documents (eg: PDFs, image files, etc…) to Scrivener projects.[/size]
I have very little experience with Sigil, but it seems a more technical program and only does epub from what I know. However, it is free, which is a big plus. Vellum does very attractive formatting and exports files for all the major ebook vendors pretty effortlessly. You can download their trial and experiment with it, but you don’t get the full program like Scrivener - it won’t actually output an ebook. And it’s not free or IMO as much a bargain as Scrivener.
What I don is to have Scrivener save files to my document folder which is C:_Documents as it’s root (I never use Windows’ library folders for anything as they can cause permission issues somewhere along the line).
I have Dropbox working out of C:_Dropbox and the folders with in. Under there I’ve will have three folder trees of Scrivener data files. One is labelled ScrivenerFast, the next ScrivenerMedium and the last ScrivenerSlow.
I have a folder sync application in which I have three profiles. Each profile copies my Scrivener data files from the documents folder to each of these Dropbox folders. One is scheduled to run weekly to the Slow folder, another runs daily to the Medium folder and the last every four hours to the Fast folder.
Then Dropbox will do its stuff when the files are uploaded.
What I mean by “Automatic” is that it happens without my intervention, like it does on my Mac or Windows computers. Scrivener for iOS requires my okay at the very least (when I first load the app), or I have to tell it to sync manually. Both methods require my intervention.
I never did quite understand the designer fetish with removing all underlines from links. In some places where it is self-evident, sure, but body text? You have to learn what colour a link is for every other site you visit.
And on this site, not all red text is a link. Sometimes it is a header. Others is it just an data field. Not a good way to say “hey, I’m important”. Add this to the list of thing folks would complain about regarding the new L&F of the forum.
Thanks for his, Jaysen. Glad I’m not the only one who finds the forum more difficult to read and use since the changes. With this goes the fact that when you a preview a post before submitting it, links do not show up at all! They are not in red or any other color or style than that of the regular (faint) text. You have to squint, find them, and hover your mouse pointer over them to see if they’re working as links.
I never did quite understand the designer fetish with removing all underlines from links. In some places where it is self-evident, sure, but body text? You have to learn what colour a link is for every other site you visit.