Oh dear Lord...where is my project?!

[Apollo16]

Perhaps a protocol might be posted on FAQ or somewhere on the practices that should be followed to avoid this problem?

Amber has already done this. This appears as a sticky above the tech forum. Here is the link:

Working off of network drives (MobileMe, thumb drives...)

This concerns using any sort of technology which promises to keep local copies of your work synchronised between multiple computers over the Internet, such as MobileMe (iDisk), DropBox, WebDAV based technologies, and so forth. Due to the way Scrivener works with a project file, and the manner in which most of these technologies keep themselves up to date, it is not recommended that you use these methods to work on active projects. Unlike many file formats, Scrivener projects are actually compos…

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