Hi,
When writing a scene, I duplicated it to split the content, then only ended up using one of these scenes. Yup! I deleted the wrong one - the half-written version is still around, but I’ve lost around 5,000 words of the scene I deleted. I’ve emptied the trash, deleting the document, so it’s gone.
I saved a version on my usb drive, but overwrote it, deleting the old complete version, so that’s gone too.
I took a snapshot of the all the documents in the manuscript a few days before hand. I also know that Scrivener creates backups too. How do I access these?
I can’t restore a snapshot of the scene, because the scene is gone and trash emptied.
Is there some way of restoring a backup or snapshot but not overwriting the version I have now? I’ve done a whole lot of work on the rest of the file and don’t want to lose that.
Hope my query makes sense.
In addition to above, my scrivener program always shows the backup dialogue box when I exit Scrivener, and I’ve just gone into my program again and checked the backup location, but there are no backups in that location c:/Documents when I check the hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
The program default for saving backups is %LOCALAPPDATA%\Scrivener\Scrivener\Backups, not in your Documents folder. If you only changed the location recently, you may have some backups of your project in the original location, so I’d try taking a look there. You can also use the Windows search tool to find backups by the project name, which may turn up something.
If the backups are stored as zip archives, you’ll need to extract a copy of the project before you can open it in Scrivener. To do this, either right-click the zipped folder and choose “Extract All” or navigate into the zipped folder and then drag out the .scriv folder to the location you want to save the project. You can then open the project in Scrivener as normal, and if the missing scene is there, you can simply drag it from the restored backup’s binder into your current version’s binder to copy it.