I’ve been writing a few books off and on for eight years. Recently I’ve tried to open several .scriv projects and I’ve received an error message below:
(The Project) seems to be of an older format, but no binder.scrivproj file could be found inside it. It may be missing or corrupt, possibly because of a problem with the device on which it is stored, or because of a synchronisation problem.
Try ctrl-clicking on the project in the Finder and selecting “Show Package Contents”, then look for a file entitled ‘binder.scrivproj’. Ensure it has not been renamed by a backup routine. If it does not exist, try restoring from a backup.
I am at a total loss here. I have dozens of projects that won’t open now so I am assuming the issue is global (something that has happened with my storage of projects or something else.) This represent a LOT of lost work so I’d love to figure this out if possible. Thanks for any suggestions.
In any case, what it seems to say is that your project files are incomplete (a Scrivener project is really just a folder full of files, presented as if it were just one file). Where did you keep the backups? If they’re coming from a Cloud service, they may not be fully synchronised. In that case, try downloading them to a different location on you local disk.
The most likely answer is that your project files are in a cloud-synced area of your hard drive and your cloud sync service is set to store them remote-only. Scrivener cannot work with project files that are not wholly present!
You need to tell your sync set up to not remove your scriv projects from your hard drive.