All right! 
Just making sure I wasn’t missing a flaw in what I wrote before.
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I don’t sync live projects but I have been tempted to if only to celebrate in the accomplishment that it is. Hat off to the coders and engineers, including L&L’s, Keith Blount. Many never have a significant problem with it.
Another aspect for consideration for the topic is the advantage brought by practicing alternate methods so you can achieve the ultimate goal––getting work done no matter the circumstances. Regularly practicing an alternate method(s) is especially important for people in the sync/automation camp. Those in the file management camp already likely use/have used multiple methods with Scrivener. Even if they haven’t, it’s not an intellectual leap or nerve-wracking for them to have to change a file management method if an OS update, or the like, breaks something. On the other hand, a disruption to the sync/auto method significantly affects those in the seamless camp.
We saw the reaction after Scrivener/Dropbox sync was broken (it wasn’t exclusive to Scrivener) by an OS update or upgrade. If you didn’t, the stress and anger (mostly misplaced) was palpable.
To those in the sync/auto camp––I disagree with but somewhat understand why doing things in a more manual way is tagged as being kludgey. I think it’d be helpful for productivity and mental health reasons to practice a manual method(s) to be used for when a sync roadblock occurs. Create a project, maybe a journal, strictly for practicing alternate methods. Make it a useful project so that you’ll feel compelled to visit it at least weekly; whatever the time available to you allows. After practicing and forming habits, while you might not want to abandon so-called seamlessness, you’ll surely see that a manual method is not that bad; different, logical, safer, takes perhaps seconds more but not kludgey. After you’re confident with the method(s) you’ve practiced and if you decide "the heck with this, it’s sync/auto for me”, return to the practice project every now and then so what you’ve learned doesn’t rust. Being prepared brings peace of mind.
Happy Holidays or Happy Whatever Is Celebrated to everyone. Thank you for what I’ve received here.
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