Scrivener for my second laptop

[pmc_parklane]

Hi
I’ve couple of questions for you. Right now I am working on a screenplay. I tried emailing part of my work as an attachment to my director, who’s using my other MacBook Pro, so that we can have a discussion about the project. Not only can I not attached the documents, I ended up losing all my work!
May I know what happened?
I tried downloading the “work” onto my thumb-drive and that didn’t work either. How do I then also load Scrivener onto my MacBook Pro? Please help. tks.
PMC

[howarth]

It’s best to export or copy-paste a chunk of text to a word-processor, and then share it with others. Trying to share Scrivener projects can run into complications. Think of Scriv as a place where you outline and draft, but the word processor is for finishing work and sending it around. The tutorials and FAQ will offer more help on these concepts and procedures.

[AmberV]

This is from the FAQ Not Yet Published; excuse the wiki syntax please:

=== I want to use Scrivener on a second computer, what is the best way to transfer my settings to the new computer? ===

As noted above, the Scrivener licence allows you to run the application on multiple computers, pending the above guidelines. After you install Scrivener on the second machine, run the program once to enter your serial number, which you can find in the original invoice email that was sent to you at the time of purchase. Then follow the below steps:

Quit Scrivener on the second computer.

On the first computer, load up Scrivener if necessary, and access the general application preferences (Cmd-,)

At the bottom of the preferences palette, you will see a drop-down menu title “Manage…”. Click this and select “Save Preferences…”

Move the file to your second computer using whatever method you prefer

Next, ‘‘copy’’ the Scivener folder from your Library/Application Support folder to the second machine in the same location. This will transfer all of your custom templates, export settings, script formats, and so on.

With the above folder copied over, start Scrivener on the second computer and access Preferences on it. Using the “Manage…” menu, select “Load Preferences…” and select the file you generated in step 3 above.

That’s it! You should now have both computers set up identically. If you wish to copy over your existing projects, you will have to use the Finder to find them and move them, as they are just ordinary files on your machine. If you never paid attention to where they went, they are most likely all located in your Documents folder.

It is not advisable to simply drag your preferences file between machines, from the Library/Preferences folder. In addition to your preferences, it also stores data which is specific to each computer. While it probably will not hurt anything to do so, you’ll most likely end up with a larger preference file than you require.

What druid said is good advice though, especially for a new user. Once you are more familiar with the Scrivener project file you could probably devise a safe method for sharing it with others. It would require one person to not edit or write anything while the other has it, though, since there is no way to “merge” two different copies together simply. And the whole project would be transferred using the backup to with zip archival feature, most likely.

[pmc_parklane]

HI
Thanks for the advice.
pmc_parklane