LENOVO IdeaPad Slim 3x, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon (ARM-architecture)
Since then, Scrivener regularly freezes for a while and then comes back. I’ve already searched here in the forum, but only found very old posts from 2023 about freezing issues. Does anyone know if this could be a problem with the ARM architecture? Does anyone know if there is a solution for this, or would it be better to exchange the device if I want to continue using Scrivener?
First thing to try would be to whitelist Scrivener in your antivirus.
This is somewhat of a common cause for hanging.
Scrivener wants to read its own files (your current project’s components), but access is denied.
Thank you @Vincent_Vincent for your message. I tried it. Unfortunately, I was trying to move the project from a OneDrive folder at the same time, and Windows performed an update. So I can’t say for sure what helped, but I haven’t had any more freezes since then. I hope the problem is solved.
OneDrive – more so than Dropbox which is relatively well behaved once configured for offline use – has a nasty habit of wanting you to work on the CLOUD copy of the file. It has been observed even changing this setting back to its preference from what you told it to do when they update server-side.
Unless required by your current needs, I think you will find that Scrivener working air-gapped local projects that you clone/sync to OneDrive will perform better.
Just remember that no matter what cloud storage provider you use, if Scrivener can’t see the data it looks for, it will keep waiting until it gets it, and there are a lot of files inside of a typical Scrivener project. I’ll update a single chapter on my iPad and DropBox has to sync 9 files sometimes more. If every one of those files has to be downloaded from OneDrive and vetted, it can be slow. It has been my experience that running x86 developed apps on Snapdragon ARMs is another vector for lag to be introduced, but I don’t have hard data on that one.