Scrivener runs but no file

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After some months working good with Scrivener, today I open S. as usual to find … nothing.
No usual page displaied, no file, no corkboard… nothing. Almost all my previous work seems vanished.
A Spotlight search gave me just 2 .scriv files (though useless). Is there something more to try? Where?

I cannot say I did delete all my files but this is what appear to be. What may be happened?

Any help would be appreciated.

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It is very hard for anyone to help you with this because we really have no idea what’s going on. All I can suggest is, first, make a fresh backup of your disk. Second, run a utility like Onyx and tell it to rebuild Spotlight database. Fourth, make sure Spotlight is indexing everywhere it could be found. Fifth, check again. Sixth, if that fails, you’ll just have to use yesterday’s backup – not the fresh backup you just made, because that just repeats the problem! (You do do daily backups, don’t you… 8) )

Seriously, I can’t see any way in which Scr. can destroy or delete a file. It can lose track of a file because you – or someone – has moved it; but delete it? I think not[/i]

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Hi,

it looks like hard disk failure. Do what michaelbywater recommends: backup, HD check, repair. Hopefully you have made these backups… (and if not, welcome to the club :wink: )

Maria

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thanks, you gave enough help. actually i did not think it might be a scrivener problem. maybe one of mine :frowning:(

fg

ps maria, of course no back (yet) :frowning:(((((
i am happy anyway (…) yesterday i have improved something more
Lie, lie, lie

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just to inform you that my old projects are suddenly back safely.
they went out for summer break only (likely…).

thanks to spotlight for his help.

fg

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And I’d start in on those backups, now. :slight_smile:

Especially if you have files that just go missing and then show up a day later. That could indicate some deep errors in the way OS X stores your files. Or it might just have been user error, like you say, but personally I wouldn’t want to take that chance.

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And I’d start in on those backups, now. :slight_smile:

you may be correct indeed…! though i began one second after “the problem” of course now i have to remember where i have put “the files”, maybe a new kind of scrivener might help? :slight_smile:

Especially if you have files that just go missing and then show up a day later. That could indicate some deep errors in the way OS X stores your files. Or it might just have been user error, like you say, but personally I wouldn’t want to take that chance.

hope the second is the right one… :neutral_face:

fg