Hello, I write on my Windows desktop during the day, and on my iOS iPad Pro during the night.
I have found that many times (not just a single occasion), Scrivener will import sections from iOS to Win, loosing all the contents in the sections and in the summary. So I have all the section I created on my left, and nothing on the page or the summary. Sometime it syncs the content of the page but not that in the summary.
And there’s no way to recover the contents: no sync conflicts are created for these files.
It always saves on close and, sometimes, I manually sync while I’m writing.
And I always check that, when I open the project on the other device, it starts with a check and a sync.
And it’s strange, because as I said, the titles of the sections are there, but the contents are empty. So there’s some kind of sync happening, but not all the contents are transferred.
I don’t use DB so keep working with lunk or others who have experience with it. You’re in good hands.
I just wanted to say that as a matter of course, when depends upon how long your iOS session is, it’s a good practice to exit the project then send yourself a zipped copy of it. You can use mail or whatever’s available in your share options. If the DB sync fails for some reason, you have a plan B.
At the main Project Panel (where all your projects and the Tutorial are), tap Edit (top of panel), select a project, then tap the Share Icon (bottom of panel, square with up pointing arrow). That’ll zip up a copy and then you choose how to send it.
Okay, but do you check that the dropbox app on your desktop has had time to download changed files from the Dropbox server? The titles and the text are not kept in the same files in the .scriv folder, so to me it sounds as if you are to quick to open the project. And then what happens is that Scrivener saves the incomplete/empty files and the dropbox app uploads the same files to the dropbox server. When you return to your iDevice it “syncs”, i.e it downloads the empty files from the dropbox server.
I work on both a Windows laptop and an iPad and sync everything between the two. I always make sure that I look at the Dropbox folder on my laptop, after I have closed Scrivener, and make sure that the Apps folder inside Dropbox has the green “I have finished syncing” tick before I close the laptop. Then I open my iPad and check that Scrivener thinks it has stuff to update. Then I sync. Then I am good to go.
