I’m hoping to learn how to synchronize some of my Scrivener preferences and settings across several different Windows PCs that I use regularly.
Specifically, I’m hoping to synchronize my custom dictionary and custom colors for Fullscreen mode.
I understand that some settings are project-based and are saved in the Project folder. I’m asking instead for settings that are global and must therefore, I believe, live somewhere in the Scrivener application files.
I use Windows 7 (x64) on most of my machines and Windows 8 (x64) on one machine. Elsewhere in the forum, I’ve found some advice on similar questions for users of other versions of Windows. None of this advice has helped me with this question.
The “Optional” section of this article should help you out; it describes how you can save and copy your settings to a second computer. It’s still a static file, so you’d want to get your preferences all set up the way you like it and then do the copy to the second computer, but typically general preferences aren’t something you’re switching very frequently. If you do have a few “themes” that you alternate between, just set them all up and then copy the whole set of preference files to your second computer.
Theoretically you could also set up an actual sync using some symlinks and Dropbox or the like, though again, unless you’re regularly changing these, it may be more hassle than it’s worth. For the personal word list, syncing may be more of interest, but you probably don’t want to sync the entire “Scrivener” directory in your AppData, just the “wordlist.ini” file inside it.
Do you know if this trick might be used to sync the wordlist.ini file on a Mac as well? I’ve not been able to find this file on my Mac system, I don’t know if it even exists at all…
The two versions have entirely separate dictionaries, so no, there’s not an easy way to sync them. Windows uses Aspell at the moment and has that custom word list file as part of Scrivener; the Mac version uses the Mac OS X dictionary and learned words are added to the user’s “LocalDictionary” file (in, I believe, ~/Library/Spelling). They are both text files, so you can manually copy the words from one into the other, but you couldn’t just sync them via Dropbox.