Hey!
After upgrading Scrivener for Windows from 1.6.x to 1.7.2 (or 1.7.3, can’t remember exactly) it seems that my Scrivener trial’s counter has stopped counting. The last 5-10 times I’ve launched Scrivener it has said “7 non-consecutive days remaining”…
My plan so far has been to buy Scrivener when the trial runs out (since I never seem to get around doing it otherwise), but now it seems that day will never arrive… 
I have the same “problem”.
I downloaded the new version (1.7.3) on the 8th October, and it has progressed to 28 days left. I have been using it almost each day. I wonder whether it is checking for a whole day gap between uses before it decrements?
The Scrivener “30 day trial” is exceedingly generous. How many times have you downloaded a program, opened it to have a look, closed it and not been able to come back for a month, only to find your free trial has expired. The Scrivener trial obviates that problem, but it also means that you can actually use the program over extended periods without the trial period expiring on you.
So a Scrivener “day” can be thought of as the time between when you start the program and when you exit it. If you open Scrivener on Day 1 and leave it running without exiting for the next fifteen days and then exit, that is still only one Scrivener “day”. So if you start-work for 15 days-exit then restart-work for 15 days-exit all within one month, the day counter will still say 28 days left.
So that’s good and generous, but could be open to abuse — and if you run it for long periods without exiting, you might encounter gremlins … I actually shut my computer down daily, to clear any build up of temporary data.
So, Komposten, if you know you want to buy Scrivener and have already committed a fair amount of work to it, just buy it. What’s the point of sitting there angsting over the fact that your trial period doesn’t seem to be running out? 
Mr X
That’s not quite true; Scrivener would hack off 15 days if you left it open all that time. But it does try to be generous in the calculations, so if you’d just opened the program, poked around briefly, and then closed it again, you wouldn’t have a whole day gone. It’ll add up over time.
I use Scrivener about an hour daily to transfer my notes taken during lectures to my computer, and it’s still not really counting down.
I must ask though, does the trial’s counter count how many minutes/hours the program has been running? (I.e. 30 days = 24*30 hours, so you can use Scrivener for 720 hours before the trial runs out? That would mean that you could use it for one hour every day for 720 days.)
Or, does it count anything that is above a certain threshold, say 15 minutes of usage, as a full day?
My earlier Scrivener trials have run out pretty fast (counting down one day for each day I used it), but now I seem to be able to use the trial for ever (on both my desktop and laptop).
PS. It actually counted down to “6 days remaining” about a week ago.
Yes, it counts the time that it’s in use. I don’t know exactly how it rounds. I can certainly bring it up with the developers that it’s overly generous right now. 