Hello, Scrivener 3 for Windows will be compatible with the Mac version? Can one work on the same document by using the two versions?
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There are two file formats: v2 and v3. Both are cross-platform.
Scrivener 2.x for the Mac and Scrivener 1.9.x for Windows both natively open and work in the v2 file format You can open a v2 project in these programs, edit it, and save it; it will still be a v2 project. Neither has any idea what to do with a v3 format project.
Scrivener 3.x for the Mac and Scrivener 3.x for Windows (forthcoming, still in beta) both natively open and work in the v3 file format. You can open a v3 project in these programs, edit it, and save it; it will still be a v3 project. If you open a v2 project in these programs, they will save a copy of it and automatically convert the live copy to v3. Scrivener 3.x for Mac also has an “export to v2” option to allow you to convert backwards, but that functionality did not show up until essentially the end of its beta period – so while the Windows 3.x beta currently lacks this “export to v2” functionality, some of us are assuming that we will see it added right around release time (I believe that L&L has stated that was the intention previously, but I do not have the time to track down that conversation).
Scrivener for iOS handles both v2 and v3 formats, since it was developed as the push to v3 was taking place. If you open a new project natively in Scrivener for iOS, it will be a v3 format project. Otherwise, it will natively handle both formats, but it does not provide options to convert between them.
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