Well Jim, I question your questioning my verification method. My verification method was not as you assumed. I actually go look for a backup file. No file. So I really don’t care about the little panel and progress meter. I was just reporting what actually happened and what I saw in case it might be informative. It wasn’t a request for editorial.
And yeah, your response was invalidating. Especially since my machine is brand new, fresh copy of Windows 10 Home, everything otherwise running great. So if Scrivener can’t work flawlessly on a clean machine, how is that my problem?
And at the same time, YOU DA MAN, because despite your tone and trivializing, you accidentally led me to the culprit.
I never use the File > Options > Backup > Open backup folder button, since I use another way to verify the creation of files no matter how they were created. But I did try it at your prompting and discovered the problem.
And it is Scrivener’s problem, not user error.
I had changed the location of my backup folder from a "D:" drive designation to an "E:" drive designation when I set up my new PC.
Scrivener couldn’t find the no-longer-existing folder during an automatic backup, nor during a Back Up Now, but of course, with Back Up To you specify the folder location, which I did, so I could manually backup to my E:\ drive location. And Scrivener remembered that location.
So this is very strange. Scrivener keeps track of the backup location in two separate places. Scrivener does not tell you it can’t find the backup location, neither in an automatic backup nor during a Back Up Now. It says absolutely nothing about the fact, just pretends it doesn’t know what it means to do a backup, or that you never told it to do one. It only tells you about it when you click the Open backup folder button.
Well, now I’m good, it’s working, and you still have a bug to fix. Prolly low on the priority list, but a bug nonetheless.
And while I’m still mildly pissed, I’d like to point out to you guys that it took SIX weeks and TWO bug reports to get even ONE response out of you about a problem which is by no means trivial. Not like the way the CTRL-SHIFT-8 to show where you are in the binder keeps changing and getting less and less visible and useful instead of more. Or a shitload of other things like that which I don’t have time to bitch about, lol. For example, a problem with comments I reported last year, got fixed, returned again, where you can delete a comment but if it was created while a whole paragraph (including the ever-invisible paragraph mark) was selected, the comment keeps resurrecting. Things like that.