Windows->Dropbox->Android and back again

Edited to avoid wasting too much of anyone’s time.

I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere; I’m posing multiple related questions that may have been answered in separate locations:

  1. I have used Dropbox for virtually everything of importance for several years. Naturally, when I installed Scriv3Win, I created a Dropbox folder named Scrivener 3 for projects. As a result, I’ve never even thought about syncing. Is this an implementation of the syncing described in 14.3 in the manual?

  2. There doesn’t seem to be an Android editor that can save in RTF format. If that’s the case, skip questions 3 and 4. Otherwise, would anyone recommend a particular Android RTF editor?

  3. When I open a project folder in either Windows File Explorer or Dropbox on Android, there is a “Files/Data” folder containing several folders with inscrutable 32-character names. Most of them contain a single file, “content.rtf”, which seems to correspond to a document file in the project. Can this file be safely edited and saved with an Android RTF editor?

  4. Assuming editing on Android is safe and Dropbox works the way it’s supposed to, is there a way to relate a 32-character folder name directly to a document name in Scriv3Win?

Thanks for your help.

Simple answer “No”. Editing that file by anything other than Scrivener will corrupt thew project because it will be out of sync with all the other files associated with that binder item.

If you want to edit on an Android device, explore “Sync with external folder”. I can’t advise further as I’m am Mac and iOS-device user. Someone will be along who can help more.

Mark

1 Like

Thanks, Mark. I’m going to edit my original question.