Good afternoon. I was reading through a document and discovered that a portion of a chapter that I wrote several weeks ago is missing (that page is truncated). I’m not sure how it happened exactly. Is there a way to recover older versions of one specific page?
Hi.
Unless you’ve used snapshots (in the inspector panel, camera icon), you’ll have to go fetch it in a backup. (If you have done any yourself, or if you have Scrivener set to auto-create backups).
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It’s gone then. The oldest backup I have is only two days ago. 
Sorry to hear that.
Did you at some point (and perhaps since forgot) compile, email your text to someone, export files, do anything outside of Scrivener with your current text?
If so, you could perhaps fetch the missing passage from such a file.
If your oldest backup is two days are you saving your project by clicking exit/ close project or by save as. Save as creates a new project which is no longer connected to old project. The info would still be there but in a different folder.
Were you reading a printout of the document or were you actually in Scrivener?
Have you tried searching the project for the missing text? There are a number of ways in which you could have accidentally created a new document with the missing material.
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Ironically, I’ve been sending parts of the doc to various people as I’ve been working–but not that chapter. I think this portion’s absence is a saving error of some kind because the current end of file was the same paragraph I’d finished with in a previous session. sigh
Hi @Viranatha, sorry to hear you lost some work. That sucks. 
It is likely you’ve got Scrivener set to only keep the 5 most recent backups. This is the default setting, which in my opinion is unsuitable for most people.
Have a look at this post I wrote for another user that explains Scrivener’s various backup settings and my recommendations for each. It was written for Scriv v1, but the only thing that’s changed with v3 are the menu options .
Improving your backup habits won’t help you recover the words you’ve already lost, but will greatly reduce the risk of this happening again.
Best,
Jim
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