Right, will do. I take whatever Amber says very seriously. Thanks. Anyway I never saw what was wrong with usb sticks. I’m saving everything everywhere all the time.
J
Nothing wrong with them, it’s simply that they get mislaid with monotonous regularity… 
All yve gorra do , is stick one of these on y USB stick, and you`ll never mislay it!
Back before everyone started trying to work off of DropBox and MobileMe, the most common problem with missing data and messed up projects resulted from using flash drives. I suspect most of the problem comes from most of these drives being shipped with an extremely antiquated disk format from the factory (same format that digital cameras use, and they have an entire industry devoted to restoring lost photographs), and people’s tendency to just remove them without unmounting them first, or worse, just pull it out while the Scrivener project is still open. Keep thumb drives formatted to HFS+ (without journalling will increase the life of the drive, but increase the risk of it getting corrupted if you just yank it out without unmounting it), and you should be okay. I personally have never had a single data-loss problem with a modern HFS+ format USB thumb drive (some of them are years old now), but I know lots of people that have had problems with factory formatted drives, who are not careful to always unmount it before removing it.
I’m playing with Dropbox right now, it’s a most excellent application indeed !
Experimenting with live .scriv packages for now, keeping a cautious eye on it (I know it’s not recommanded and much better to “backup to” as zip archive !)
After a long day, good news. I have Scribbler on my iPhone sending an email which when imported into Scrivener creates a complete structured Scrivener project! At this point, its just the core functionality, but it works and proves it is actually useful!
I’ll post screenshots later this week as my free time allows.
Keep thumb drives formatted to HFS+ (without journalling will increase the life of the drive, but increase the risk of it getting corrupted if you just yank it out without unmounting it),
Sorry, Amber, HFS+ ? How do I do that, or are they already HFS+ whatever that means?
J
Jenny, most likely not, as Windows computers cannot read HFS+ at all without installing drivers. That is the format that all Macintosh computers use by default (what it is is technical. Think of it as a way to sort stuff. Macs use a way of sorting your files, to put it simply, that Windows computers do not fathom. The inverse is not true. We can read all of their disks just fine). To make a thumb-drive Mac-happy, open up Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder of the main Applications folder), select the thumb drive, and then choose to “erase” it, making sure the drop-down is set to “Mac OS Extended”, rather than “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.
If you’ve never done anything like this before, please double-check everything. Triple check. You can easily wipe out an entire hard drive using this tool if you select the wrong thing in the left-hand list. And of course, you’ll want to move everything currently on the thumb drive to your computer before doing this, and then copy it back. 
Naturally, if you need to use the device with Windows computers (or Parallels or Boot Camp on your Mac), this would not be a good step to take as the drive would not be recognised at all without installing drivers on the Windows computer.
Oooh, that was scary, but it’s done, and I can feel my mac and usb stick being happier together. Thanks, Amber
J
I’ve posted screenshots of both the iPhone Scribbler™ side and the structure created by Scrivener in a project. This is enough to prove to me I’m on the right track. It’s not a full sync, but it’s simple and works.
visualnewt.com/Products/scribbler/
Suggestions, comments welcome.