So probably just me, But every single time I miss the beta update and I have to reinstall manually, I lose months of work. Folders for my current project show, but only the folders and nothing else. No scriv file to select at all. Did a search for scriv files and I only find old backups. What am I doing to cause this?
Your data is stored separately from the beta, and should be completely unaffected by a software update. That’s doubly true of backups, which should be stored in a separate location from both the application and your live projects.
Are you opening your projects from Scrivener’s “recent” menu, or directly from Windows Explorer?
Some cleanup utilities will remove all files “associated with” a deinstalled application. Are you using one of those?
Where are your projects and backups stored?
Katherine
To my onedrive. The folder is there, but everything is empty… really odd.
Is OneDrive configured to “optimize” disk space by moving rarely used files to the cloud?
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Katherine
No I run windows 10. But I found the zip backup and it was current. I think I just need to figure out how Scrivener saves overall. I’m getting the impression there is a difference in save locations between the regular scriv files and the zip backups.
Scrivener saves where you tell it to save. Scrivener doesn’t make the decision, you do.
When you start a new project, you are asked to give it a name and to specify where to save it.
In Preferences you decide where the backups go.
These two should be separate places so if something happens you don’t lose it all.
’Save’ is where you have your live, active project.
The ’backups’ are copies of older versions of the project and you can decide how many such backups Scrivener should kerp.
In addition to the global preferences where you can save your backups for all your Scrivener projects (this is what I and many others use), you can also in the beta specify a per-project backup folder. By default the per-project backup folder is blank, so your backup options use the global settings.
Yeah I see what you all mean. The only thing I can think of my scriv file getting messed up is something to do with onedrive. I have read of others having issues with this. So what I am doing is setting the zip file backups to go to my onedrive instead of the live one.
Though I would love to actively save the live file to the cloud as I write. I don’t see a reliable option at this time.
Dropbox is a reliable option for storing live projects.
BUT–if you are not actively sharing your live projects across devices, then you really don’t need to put them on a syncing service. A syncing service introduces complications (now you have to pay attention to make sure everything gets synced) and a small bit of risk (even a reliable syncing service can mess up your project).
I share my projects between devices, so I store my live projects on Dropbox. I’ve never had an issue. But if my situation were different and I wasn’t sharing across devices, then I would store my live projects locally and my zipped backups to OneDrive. There’s nothing wrong with that approach.
(Hopefully you are also regularly backing up your entire PC.)
Best,
Jim