It looks like I lost a morning’s writing, due to faulty syncing. I of course want to get this writing back, but more than anything, I need to figure out what went wrong so I can ever trust Scrivener for iOS again.
Before I went to the cafe this morning for a writing session, I made sure my laptop and my iPad were both synced via Dropbox. I was seriously careful about this, as writing on Scrivener for iPad is a new habit for me. I visually compared the section I would be writing in, to make sure they were the same on both. I left Scrivener open on my laptop, as I always do.
I then went to the cafe and wrote. When I was done writing, I closed out of the document and made sure to sync.
When I got home, I closed the document on my laptop, made sure Dropbox was synced, and opened the document back up. My new writing wasn’t there!
I tried syncing a couple of times on each device, and got the same result: The new writing was showing up on my iPad, but not on my laptop. Yes, I was syncing the same file, in my Apps/Scrivener Dropbox folder.
I got my webcam to document this strange discrepancy for Scrivener support, and as I was recording, I realized that now my new writing this morning wasn’t showing up on my iPad! F***********CK!!!
(Now I’m punching myself for not copying and pasting this morning’s writing into Evernote.)
I tried to do a Dropbox rewind to an earlier time, but with no luck. My morning’s writing is still gone.
- Does anyone know a way for me to get my writing back?
- What the hell happened, and how can I prevent it in the future? (Besides never trusting Scrivener for iOS again!)
EDIT: Just want to clarify that there were no conflict messages, and there are no conflicting changes showing up for this in Scrivener.