I’ve been using Scrivener 1 then 3 for Windows for ages, and back in November of last year I even upgraded from my old HP of six years to a new laptop due to Scrivener repeatedly getting stuck and having to close and reopen it. Once I got everything moved over to the new one, everything seemed to be working fine for at least a few months.
At least since early March (but might have started in February), I’ve begun finding that if I close the lid or walk away long enough that the computer goes to sleep, then come back, Scrivener is still open but the window is messed up (minimized and chopped up sort of?) and minimizing or adjusting the window does not fix it, so I have to close and reopen. Since it was working just fine for a while, and I’m not experiencing any issues with other things like Word, I’m not inclined to think it’s a problem with the computer, but curious if anyone else has had this issue.
In case it matters: my main project is stored on Dropbox so I can sync it periodically with the Scrivener iOS app on my iPhone.
First thing I do is turn off all these power saving features on a computer. They’re a bane of computer errors.
Set all modes to never.
Machines are made to be switched on and off, not float in suspended animation.
Do you use an external monitor, or multiple monitors even? I’ve found this kind of stuff can sometimes happen if the system takes longer to initialise the external monitor. Basically the laptop screen comes up first, and its smaller than the main monitor so some windows get cut down to size, then the main monitor comes up but there is no reason to change the window size just because of that, so they stay smaller.
Naturally that shouldn’t mess up the layout of the window, but it might be that the Qt programming toolkit that Scrivener uses (and Word does not, nor would most Windows software) isn’t as adept at handling the scenario as it should be.
Nope, just the laptop’s monitor.
I’ll try adjusting the sleep settings since I don’t think it happens if I catch it while the screen-saver is still going at least…just trying to avoid the image getting burned into the screen if I have to pause to take notes for a while.