Hello,
Just wanted to take a moment off and tell KB and the developers of Scrivener a BIG, BIG thanks!
As you know, I write adult fiction and while it is indeed looked down by many, it may surprise many that I am a normal human being – and that vices of authors of normal genres also applies to me.
And thus, in a moment of red mist, I deleted my latest .SCRIV project.
No accidentally. Fully in control, with a clear, lucid mind. I cannot tell you how good it felt. The satisfaction of dragging it to the trash. Then clearing the trash. Ah, bliss!
But that was that. Three days passed, and I panicked. I had a deadline – the non-negotiable, hard kind, for a submission.
And I was ruing that moment of anger, and wondering if I was not the fool for having deleted all this stuff. Also, having made a move from windows to Mac, it was quite tough to find and run the “UNDELETE” applications, that you see so proliferated in the Windows world.
Surprisingly, Scrivener itself helped me!
All I had to do, was go to the MENUS and the OPTIONS and understand that Scrivener takes Automatic backups! Oh my God! This was wonderful.
I opened the backup folder hesitantly (and, I’ll admit, after a short prayer) and Lo! there it was. Not only my latest, but the last 5 versions too!
I have to admit – I really felt like flying to where ever KB lives and giving him a big kiss!! (my missus permitting, of course.)
KB, if you are reading this, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Scrivener is THE BEST!
Regards – Zubin Garda
