I have installed Scrivener on both my PC and my iPad. I have a project I have started on my PC, and as recommended, I also created a DropBox account. I have saved the work, and synced it to DropBox.
However, when I go look for it in DropBox, there’s nothing there, which I don’t understand.
That’s why when I go to my iPad to do some editing on the road, it can’t find the project.
I have uninstalled and re-installed both programs from both machines and nothing changed. The instructions provided on the website don’t work because there is no “Sync” button that I can find in the iOS version.
Thanks for the help, as this project is important to me!
Here are some troubleshooting steps. I’m on an iPhone, so your iPad screens might look slightly different.
1 - Confirm that your Windows PC and your iPad are both signed into the same Dropbox account. If they’re not, syncing won’t work.
2 - PC - The default path to save Scrivener projects on iOS is Apps\Scrivener, so, on your PC, your Scrivener projects should be stored in C:\Users\USERNAME\Dropbox\Apps\Scrivener. For an example, see the path and my projects in the screenshot below.
Well, it seems that the problem I have is getting Scrivener (on Windows) to actually put the files on Dropbox in the first place. I can open my project on my PC, I can select “Sync w Mobile”, and nothing happens on Dropbox. Even on my PC, there’s nothing in Dropbox. I have double (triple) checked and both machines are using the same Dropbox account.
At least you gave me steps to take to troubleshoot, which I really appreciate. I wonder if I should uninstall and reinstall Scrivener on both machines again? I don’t think it would hurt.
What I was hoping you’d do is go through each step that I listed above and confirm your setup.
So I’ll try it again, another way:
1 - Are your devices all signed into the same Dropbox account?
2 - Are all the Scriv project folders on your PC moved into the Dropbox folder I listed upthread? (You need to move them there, it doesn’t happen automatically.)
Please confirm these two, then we’ll move on to the others.
It would probably not hurt—unless the lifetime you lose doing so causes you phantom pain—but it most certainly won’t help. There is a Dropbox problem, not a Scrivener problem. Scrivener just saves its projects somewhere.
Assumed that you actually use the same Dropbox account on your iPad and on your PC, like you said, I suggest you create a new test project on your iPad. Just don’t call it “test” but give it a truly unique name. Close it and see if Scrivener on the iPad is syncing it.
After that has worked check if the Dropbox app on your PC has synced. Check if you have activated “files available offline” in its settings.
If all of that seems okay, do a search on your PC for the test project with the truly unique name. If you have located it, then its parent folder is the (Dropbox) folder where Scrivener on the iPad saves its projects. Move your existing Scrivener projects (with non of these projects open in Scrivener) to this parent folder and save all future projects in the same folder too.
That should work if everything else is set up correctly.
3 - Using a browser, sign into the same Dropbox account as step #1. You should find your Scriv projects in the file path Apps\Scrivener at Dropbox.com.
