I recently bought a new MacBook Air, and instead of moving my license over from my MacBook Pro (2014), I bought a new license of Scrivener. I was able to set up this new copy to backup to iCloud versus Dropbox, but when I went to my iPhone (that also has a copy of Scrivener on it that I kept sync’d with my older MacBook Pro and my iPad), the only option is to sync with DropBox. I can’t find a way to verify the Scrivener version although when I say “update from iTunes”, nothing happens so I assume it is up to date. Is the iOS version not able to sync with iCloud over DropBox? Will I see the same problem on my iPad? I’d like all 4 of my devices to sync to the same place, and I’d like to get off DropBox since they’ve been hassling me to upgrade my storage and I’m already paying for iCloud.
TIA!
(Very) long story short: Currently, Dropbox is the only way to sync between iOS and macOS devices.
There’s a setting somewhere to slow this down this. Now mine hassles me once in a blue moon, while I use the tool everyday–though not directly–but to sync my backups.
It’s not necessary to move a licence across from an old computer. The L&L licence very generously covers ALL devices on that platform in the household (even children. spouses).
You might like to send an email to L&L and see if you can get a refund on the new purchase, explaining the situation, They seem very helpful.
Apart from using a workaround which is not too difficult, (There’s a post on it somewhere, but I’m a bit rushed today) for straight syncing with iOS in the mix, Dropbox is the go.
If you really need syncing, then just maybe use the free version of Dropbox? Unless you have a lot of large projects that you are always working on, this should work for most.
Otherwise if you don’t really need to sync, and copying the project around is just fine, there are ways of doing that (further down in that thread, I collected some resources for other alternatives, too). The “iTunes” hint is one method, though that label is outdated,[1] and all it really means is to refresh the software against what is stored in its files area. You can look at that yourself on the device, using Files.app. If you put a project in there, Scrivener might not immediately see it, and that is what the “update from iTunes” button would have it check.
But these days there are more convenient ways of doing that than plugging in, including using iCloud Drive.
This comes from the days when iTunes still existed, and was how you managed your mobile devices. Since originally that mean iPods, it made sense at one point. ↩︎