Windows users should note that while Jump Lists have incorporated a Share feature (icon) when you right click on a Scrivener project in a Jump List from the Windows Taskbar’s Scrivener icon, so do not think you’re sharing your Scrivener project. You will only be sharing your SCRIVX file, which is your project’s control file only.
The feature is made for stand-alone files like an Excel workbook, PowerPoint presentation, or Word document, etc. which are self-contained entities, whereas a Scrivener project is made up of multiple interlinked files “invisible” to the project interface.
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I suppose that this is a Windows 11 feature?
I run Windows 10. I can see a share option when right clicking in File Explorer, but not in the taskbar.
…The taskbar only has a recent files list.
And this is what you get when right-clicking a file :
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To add to @RevoTiLlor’s : if you want to share a project, zip it (via a zipped backup in Scrivener, or via File Explorer) and share that. – The fact that the project is zipped makes it go through the transfer as a single file. … If something went wrong, you’ll know right away. You’ll get an error message when unzipping the package. There is no way the project could have gotten corrupted without you or whoever is to receive it knowing. In which case you just send it again. … Much better than to discover that something went wrong after hours worked on the project. Even though fixable, in a majority of cases.
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Another thought, is it maybe a feature added by a cloud sync service—where that concept of “sharing” is more common? I guess it depends on what happens when you try, it should be pretty obvious what the mechanism is at that point, something like OneDrive, or if an email client comes up with the resource already attached, that sort of thing.
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It’s a Win 11 feature where you can right click on an app icon on the task tray.
’ A jump list provides quick access to files, folders, and application-specific tasks used recently or frequently’
It’s active on MS apps and some 3rd party, but obviously not Scrivener (or Calibre)
It’s not part of the System Tray (towards the right of the Taskbar) but the actual icon when launching Scrivener from the Taskbar.
To get a Scrivener Jump List you have to have at least launched each project from within File Explorer once, unlike M365 apps which just do it anyway. It’s a useful way of launching alternate projects from the Taskbar, instead of the one you last worked on, or in addition to it.
Also, in Windows Settings: Recommendations, Recents and Jump List (a single item) must be toggled on.
I neglected to mention that the Share feature is part of the Insider Preview at this stage and will only become part of the standard Windows release with the annual update to 25H2 in October, or thereabouts. (Insider releases changed from 24H2 to 25H2 in the past day or so—but that’s just a soft hint that the annual change is coming. Microsoft releases OS changes to Insiders throughout the year through Canary, Dev, Beta and Preview channels.)
Some features aren’t passed to certain regions in their piecemeal rollouts to Insiders, so testers use Vivetool, available from GitHub, and a feature ID number to install such.)
Another thing, the latest Share features to Messenger, WhatsApp, email and a list of whatever other comms apps you have running that are available by right clicking on a file from File Explorer’s context menu, is limited to sharing files only and not folders.
In the Scrivener space, it means you’d be shooting yourself in the foot sharing a SCRIVX file this way, and not get the context menu’s Share option if right clicking on a SCRIV folder. Again, this is a Windows 11 Insider feature at the time of writing.
It started there and is now in insider adoption on the Win 11 desktop on File Explorer and Jump Lists.
Yes, that’s where I’m seeing it. I’m on the ARM 64 Insider. I was referring to the Scrivener icon on the taskbar.
I see what you mean. If launching the project from within Scrivener it never appears with the right click but does when you launch it from explorer.
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