Scrivener is not saving things, loading old versions of file

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I am extremely frustrated with Scrivener right now. I have been using Scrivenver for NaNoWriMo this year but starting yesterday I cannot reliably save my writing. I lost 500 words yesterday for seemingly no reason. It just loads an old version of that file. I lost 300 or so words today for no reason but was able to recover them.

For the words I lost yesterday they are gone, they are not in any of the automatic backups or in the docs folder. The words I lost today are in the docs folder of the project but when I open the project in Scrivener I just get the old version of the file.

I really love Scrivener but I cannot deal with these problems. Please tell me there is something I am doing wrong here.

Note that I do work on this project by transferring back and forth to my linux laptop and windows PC. These problems occurred on my Windows desktop.

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By which means are you doing the transfer? Are you using Dropbox or other cloud sync program?

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I transfer by copying and pasting the project folder into my sync folder for Pulse/syncthing (ind.ie/pulse/)