Uh ohhhhhh [and restoring a project from a copy on an iPad or iPhone]

Hi everyone, I’m a bit of a situation. Long story made as short as possible: Even though I had Scrivener, I wasn’t writing. In the interim, I had deleted Dropbox and went to Google Drive due to large files being deleted by some software glitch. I had had Scrivener sync’d to Dropbox. Few week ago, I decided to write again, so I upgraded to Scrivener 3. But after research I learned that Google One was not reliable to sync with Scrivener. So I downloaded Dropbox free because it comes with 2 gigs of space.

So here’s my problem. The only scrivener file I had saved is a novella and it was only on my iphone and ipad. So I sync’d Scrivener 3 to Dropbox; however, when I opened Scrivern on my iphone, I hit sync (like a dummy) and lost my novella. But it’s STILL resides on my iPad. I just makes sure I don’t hit the sync feature when I open it.

So my question is how do I proceed from here. I’d to have that novella sync to all devices and have it on my desktop computer to.

Sorry for the lengthy explanation, I just wanted to give some context to the situation I am in.

Thank you!

Email it to yourself from your Ipad asap. (That’s what I’d do ; first and foremost.)

What I mean is make sure there is more than that single instance of it before you do any attempt at whatever…

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We have this Knowledge Base article that explains how to create manual iOS backups.

I would start with it on the iPad to create a full ZIP of the project that you can email to yourself or store to a cloud-syncing service.

That way, you have the full project’s data saved in another location.

Then, you can review this Knowledge Base article on syncing via Dropbox.

It provides step-by-step instructions for getting Scrivener on your iOS device to sync via Dropbox. It also explains moving your projects from being stored locally on your computer and into that shared Dropbox folder for syncing.

You may find that sending that ZIP to your computer and then extracting the project from the ZIP is the better way to get the syncing issues sorted out.

That would allow you to move the unzipped project into the Dropbox desktop client on your computer and sync it to both mobile devices.

If you encounter any issues with that, you can open a help ticket using either the email links at the bottom of our contact us page or that form to submit a help request.

If you find that you do need to open a help ticket, you might include a link to this forum post. That way, the tech-support person who picks up the ticket can review what occurred and the steps you’ve already taken.

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thank you sooooooooooooooooo (one more) o much!