# \[OneDrive\] Lost Work Version History

**URL:** <https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993>\
**Category:** Scrivener\
**Tags:** support, sync\
**Created:** [October 5, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993 "2025-10-05T08:46:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![allypally](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@allypally](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/allypally)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 8:46am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/1 "2025-10-05T08:46:10Z")

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I’ve been working in Scrivener. I had been saving to OneDrive, or so I thought. However the latest versions in Onedrive state May, and the last I worked on this project was in August.

I hadn’t noticed as despite whatever was happening in OneDrive, the latest versions were opening in Scrivener until this morning, when I ran an update and they vanished.

Please can anyone help, is there versioning of some sort in Scrivener?

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**Author:** ![GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/goaliedad/32/28584_2.png) [@GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/GoalieDad)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/2 "2025-10-05T09:04:10Z")

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Were you backing up the Scrivener Project or a zip backup and on windows or mac?

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**Author:** ![RevoTiLlor](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/revotillor/32/34863_2.png) [@RevoTiLlor](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/RevoTiLlor)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/3 "2025-10-05T10:34:14Z")

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There’s an option on the File menu … Show Application Support Folder, which will take you to the location. One of the folders is Backup. Check in there. You’ll also be able to tell where your files actually are because the menu option invokes File Explorer.  
Scrivener auto-reverts there when cloud services fall over for whatever reason—well, I’ve had it happen that way. So…

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**Author:** ![rms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/rms)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/4 "2025-10-05T11:20:06Z")

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I addition to sage advice from @RevoTiLlor and @GoalieDad, make sure that you’ve set your OneDrive sync settings for the Scrivener folders to be offline, or “always keep on this device”, or whatever nomenclature Microsoft uses. This required for Scrivener and to not have that leads to the symptoms you see.

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**Author:** ![GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/goaliedad/32/28584_2.png) [@GoalieDad](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/GoalieDad)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2025, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/5 "2025-10-05T11:52:12Z")

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Here is a link to a blog on my website about cloud backup including One drive.

> **[Overview on Cloud Backups — My Writing Journey](https://www.leedelacy.com/learning-scrivener-basics/6fycs0j8hiqsklkgozosew5ymve8uy?rq=cloud)**
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> No Cloud based method is 100% safe. Follow these Cloud Sync simple rules: Every computer you are syncing should save zip backups to the same cloud folder, if you are not syncing live Projects with Dropbox. It is best to have ALL/ANY cloud...

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**Author:** ![allypally](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@allypally](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/allypally)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/onedrive-lost-work-version-history/150993/6 "2026-04-12T21:40:45Z")

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Apologies everyone. I did not see there were replies to this. I had set up my backup correctly…turns out I was looking for the wrong file.