I'm truly inexperienced in shuffling projects into new device from dropbox. OH!! I seem to have all the backup zip files downloads from Dropbox in my windows laptop but I got no idea how to open my old project in said laptop. I am ready to spend as much time as possible learning all of Scrivener but right now I think I'm just driving blind and missing some little detail of opening my scrivener project---THANKS
If it’s a ZIP file, it’s easy:
- Make sure the file has been synced to the local device.
- Uncompress the file.
- Open as normal.
If it’s a project, as opposed to a .zip backup mentioned by @kewms, set up the Dropbox app on the new computer and sync to your account. Just go into your Dropbox account via the dropbox app on your computer before you open any projects on the new computer and make certain the Dropbox folder and any new files are set to Available Offline per the screenshot. (Mac but Win should be similar). Scrivener projects are not designed to be opened direct from cloud services. You can set it up so that only specific folders such as Scrivener projects folder are available offline, but I do this for everything so nothing gets missed in a ‘seniors moment’.
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Download 7-zip. It’s free.
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