Saving

While using Scrivener this month (which I loved), I had a lot of questions with the saving. I would constant back up the file after I saved meticulously, but if I saved without backing up, my work would be lost. If I went back to the original file I made, there wouldn’t be any changes I made but if I went to the back up file, everything would be there. So if I clicked out of Scrivener without backing up (but have saved), then I would lose everything.

Could you explain the save function? I think I’m doing it wrong? o_O

Could you please explain your save/backup process in more detail so that we can try and recreate it? Thanks.