I had the temporary Nanowrimo version of Scrivener on my computer, but I have been away from my computer for a long time, and the version has expired. I would like to get a new version, but in the meantime–is all of my writing lost? I went looking through program files but couldn’t find anything. When I open the application I can see my work, but it gives me an expiration message and closes out.
Please tell me all of last year’s writing is not lost.
If I update my Scrivener, will it allow me access again? The verbiage the message uses sounds like I have to download another Scrivener program–not update my existing one. I am afraid my work will be locked in there forever. Please help!
Your work is saved as RTF files in your project folder. Worst case scenario is that you don’t reinstall Scrivener and can still open those files in any other word processing program. But if you get a new version of Scrivener, you’ll just tell it where your program folder is and it will open it right up.
Thank you so much for your help! There were two Scrivener-based folders, and I was unable to find anything in them that was a document/txt/rtf, etc.–but with your confidence–I kept looking and found the project folders in my Documents folder. I didn’t know it would put them there. It’s been a while!
Thanks again!
I had the same issue and thought everything was lost. Thanks for the help.
If you have not yet used the regular 30-day demo completely, try that! The NaNo version runs on its own clock (strictly calendar-based) and will not use up time from the regular demo. Hence you may have another month of time available to work with Scrivener, and certainly enough time to work with your projects.