k i understand you have to make money on this sorta thing ie the esellerate thing you mentioned in the first post but will support paypal? it’s just less hassle for me
any ideas on price?
eSellerate fully support PayPal so that is fine. The price will be $34.99.
Thanks and all the best,
Keith
excellent thanks for the prompt reply keith
psst where to i send info about bugs and other issues i’m having, i wasn’t paying attention 
Please use the forums - the forum titles are self-explanatory and they all have descriptions underneath.
I have worked with S3 for several weeks and had no difficulties at all. The interface is familiar yet simple, and while the number of commands seem to have grown, finding what you need is easy, thanks to the Help menu and its Search command. Try it for something like Hide Invisibles.
My current project involves reading student journals in a seminar course on film. The files arrive as e-mail attachments and I save them to a folder on Dropbox. The formats were a mixed lot of rtf, docx, and pages. After opening S3, I dragged them into the Binder, and every file swiftly converted into a readable text.
They all became Palatino with invisibles showing, at 1.1 spacing. Possibly that was the format of the first file and it became a default. I easily converted to my preferred format, wrote my comments in a separate file, split it into student units, and returned them by e-mail.
No complaints here, though I am troubled that we must have the latest Mac OS to run Scrivener 3. That forces us to go along with Apple’s planned obsolescence, which forces upgrades to new, expensive hardware, just as in the bad old days of Microsoft dominance.
Good to see you in these columns once again, druid. Maybe I’ve simply not seen your contributions, but it seems a long time since I’ve read one. I hope that the groves of Yankee academe are treating you well. Festive greetings!
H
Though the beta 3 being referred to in the title of this thread is not a beta of Scrivener 3. If you look at the date of Keith’s last post, you’ll see that it was posted in 2006!
Mark
C’mon Mark, me old mate. Cut em’ some slack! 
It’s Christmas and they’ve probably been at the bottle 
Merry Christmas folks! 
Vic
Happy Christmas, Vic!
Mark
Intriguing, especially as Scrivener 3 seems to have been in development for some time before macOS Sierra was released. Assumed S3 would be compatible with earlier versions of OS X.
I wonder if you intended to post on the beta forum? Not a beta tester, but I found the publicly available forum online at:
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I installed, then: Beta has expired,
This beta was time-limited and has now expired. Please visit literatureandlatte.com/forum to download the most recent beta version
what should I do?
If urgent, literatureandlatte.com/forum … 55#p228055
Or try the dedicated beta forum… [URL removed]
I will be very disappointed if the circulating information about the coming Scrivener 3 being compatible only with Sierra is true! I have an old iMac still working very well under El Capitan and not updatable to the new Apple System and I do not understand why the new Scrivener would not run on my machine. I have been waiting for this update for months…
Thank you.
ES
This is an answer earlier in this thread:
Translates to “only Sierra”, I’m afraid.
But … earlier versions of OS X support 64-bit apps. Something different about Sierra’s 64-bit implementation?
With each release Apple adds features to APIs, fixes bugs, and deprecates then removes other features. It requires a lot of extra work for developers to keep backwards compatibility across multiple OS releases. It seems Keith has rewritten large parts of Scrivener and it would be foolish of him to do all that work only to use old deprecated APIs, it is right he uses modern development paradigms so Scrivener can keep going for the next few years without more rearchitecting. macOS and Apple have never much cared for backwards compatibility, and that is a price we must all pay…
Regarding compatibility, Keith reported that he’s been using Scrivener 3 for two years :
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Best to wait to hear from the developer(s) before drawing any conclusions about backwards compatibility.
Edit by scshrugged – Ignore my above post, including my quoting of Keith. The opening original post was from 2006 and was speaking about a different “Beta 3”. I misread the thread. Sorry if I misled anyone, and sorry to Keith for quoting him out of context.
This post isn’t really about scrivener 3, right? The beta I downloaded is too old to be even opened. Will there be a version 3 in the coming future?
André
Right, the post was made on the third Sunday of October, 2006, over ten years ago. The beta version it linked to back then has rightly expired.
Maybe in that case, shouldn’t this post be renamed/removed? It’s kind of confusing…