I did a quick search for this but found no answers. Hope I’m not asking a FAQ!
My wife uses the Windows version of Scrivener (I’m using it on a Mac) and has just asked me about an icon she claims she had on the toolbar which she says was to save, although I suspect I taught her to take a backup. But now there is neither a save icon on her toolbar nor a backup now icon. We went into the section under Tools where you can change the toolbar, but there we found no save icon and only a backup icon, not a backup now.
On my Mac, I have no save icon, so presumably there isn’t one, but I have both backup icon and backup now icon which I can add to the toolbar.
So what’s the answer for my wife? Is there a save icon or a backup now icon?
Hello there,
As a windows user also, the Back up now icon is under tools/customize toolbars/ Main toolbar on my Scrivener. About halfway down the icon list.
There should be both a Back Up Now and a Back Up To option available for the main toolbar, the former just running the auto-backup routine (meaning those backups will be part of the queue Scrivener maintains, saving the x most recent according to the backup settings in Tools > Options) and the latter invoking the manual backup, allowing you to save a permanent backup at a custom location and with a custom name.
If you don’t see both those icons available in the Customize Toolbars window, check Help > About Scrivener. You may have an earlier version that didn’t include both these options, in which case you can run Help > Check for Updates or download the latest version, 1.8, from our website and install that over your current version to get up to date.