I have a completed project on Dropbox that I wish to edit while I’m on the road for a week. There is an accompanying Aeon Timeline file in the same folder. What issues might I face if I were to copy this folder to a local external drive so that I can access it when away from wifi, then copy it back to Dropbox when I return. This is a straightforward process with other types of files – I do it all the time – but have never done it with a Scrivener file before and want to make certain I’ m not introducing issues. Thanks.
If you have the Dropbox software installed, it should be straightforward for Scrivener projects, too. Simply drag from one location to the other in Finder.
The big thing to watch out for is external resources, such as linked images or research files imported as aliases. Those are stored outside the project and won’t move when it does.
Obviously it would be a good idea to confirm that the transfer was successful before you leave on your trip.
Katherine
If you have it in Dropbox folder on the Mac you are bringing on the trip you don’t need to do anything. Files are not somewhere else when you have them ”on Dropbox”. You simply have a copy of them on the Dropbox server.
So does this mean that Scrivener is working from a copy on the local machine, which is then periodically synced to a “master copy” on Dropbox? The upshot being that a project “on Dropbox” is available even when the computer is offline, and will then re-sync (update the master copy) when you’re back online.
Is that right?
That is how Dropbox works, providing you have the Dropbox app installed on your Mac(s).