Hi; I did a search so I’m not sure if this bug has been reported yet or not. It’s quite possibly related to the templates bug that I know will be fixed in the second Beta release.
OS: Windows 7. Up to date as far as I know.
Scrivener for Windows
Error message: Project The Courtesan’s Mistress is incompatible with this version of Scrivener. The project at C:/Users/Steve/Documents/The Courtesan’s Mistress.scriv is incompatible with this version of Scrivener.
Circumstances: I opened Scrivener for the first time, clicked on the template for Fiction: Novel (Standard Manuscript Format) and typed the title in. No other change. I clicked Create and Scrivener crashed. On loading, after the message about Scrivener being in Beta, the error message pops up.
I can’t find the file it created anywhere and it won’t let me create another one of the same name.
OS: Windows XP
Scrivener for Windows
Error message (happens at startup): Project test is incompatible with this version of Scrivener. The project at C:/Documents and Settings/nlorenz01/Desktop/test.scriv is incompatible with this version of Scrivener.
I click OK, and it brings me to the Create New Scrivener Project screen. If I try to open a pre-existing Scrivener project using Open Existing Project, it reads my Scrivener files as folders. If I try to create a new Scrivener Project (have tried Blank and Fiction templates so far), it lets me create the project but won’t open it, saying: “The exception Integer division by zero. (0xc0000094) occurred in the application at location 0x053e3175. Click OK to terminate the program Click on CANCEL to debug the program”
ETA: Whoops, looks like this may be covered in the bug report post at the top of the page. Which I didn’t see until now. Apologies - Dr. Pepper is not doing its job this morning.
I’m getting this message as well, except this time it is with an existing project rather than opening a new one from template. I’ve loaded up this project successfully several times on my Win 7 Starter Asus netbook, but when I tried again this morning it gave me the “project is incompatible with this version” message and wouldn’t load.
I then attempted to load it from my desktop machine running Vista (via my Dropbox shared folder). It told me “Project appears to already be opened on another machine. Continue?” even though I had closed Scrivener on my other machine. So I tried restarting my netbook, but was still unable to open it from there. I was, however, able to open it successfully from my desktop, after clicking “yes” to open anyway despite it thinking it’s already open on another machine. After I loaded the project, my shared folder created a “conflicted copy” version of “Note-10.rtf” from my netbook, in the ProjectNotes subfolder.
I deleted the “conflicted copy” and tried opening the project again on my netbook, still no luck.
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Scrivener on my netbook (using the uninstaller, restarting machine, installing again from the download). Still no luck. Still able to open it on my Vista desktop. Very weird.
I am able to successfully create new projects from the templates on my netbook, and load them again once created. Just not my “real” project. So there must be something wonky in the project itself, but I don’t know why I can open it on one machine but not the other.
EDIT: as far as I know they should be both running the same version. Pretty sure I downloaded it to both at the same time, and I’m also pretty sure I hadn’t opened the project on anything but my netbook until this morning when it started going wonky. But maybe I’ll re-download to both machines, re-install again, and see what happens. I can’t seem to find an “about” notice in the menu with a definite version number so might just try that.
Hi! For me this was fixed by updating files having to do with quartz. Is there a windows update you’re missing? Are things like DirectX updated? Have you tried installing the C++ 2008 libraries?
Edit: quartz.dll is from the DirectX 9 updates. Might want to try updating DirectX.
Hmm, good catch. I just checked my windows update on my netbook and it’s showing updates in the queue that failed to install this morning. I’ll get that sorted out and see if that helps.
EDIT: Win update didn’t help. It’s not letting me open that one project, will let me open other random ones just not that one. But I can still open it on my Vista machine. I have no idea what the problem is.
I think I might just copy-paste everything into a new project and try to get around it that way. Even if all else fails, all the RTFs are there so I’m not worried about losing the data.