Peace everyone,
I am rather new in the Scrivener world and I just finished studying the tutorial of Scrivener for Windows 3.0.
Although I know it’s still a beta version, I didn’t want to do the 1.9 tutorial knowing that I would have to upgrade to V3.0 sometime in the future. Here’s my question:
I am currently working on a novel using MS Word, but I’d like to continue writing now using Scrivener.
When it’s time to update to Scrivener for Windows 3.0, is my work saved in the beta version going to be lost?
I just want to make sure I don’t lose my work when the time comes for us to upgrade to the finalized version 3.0.
Your files would be stored externally like almost any other word processor, so you shouldn’t loose anything when updating from the beta to the full version.
Regardless, Scrivener has some pretty extensive backup settings, it’s always a good idea to make use of those just in case the worst should happen.
Hi, Gabo82, and welcome to Scrivener! It’s my understanding (as a user; and I’m not using the beta myself) that the current version of the beta is very near to what will be released as the final v. 3.0. This means that there is practically zero likelihood that work done in the beta won’t be compatible with v. 3; and even if it were, they would include a function to update/convert it.
Think carefully about the plan you will use for storing your Scrivener projects. Scrivener creates specially structured folders called {projectname}.scriv, and each such folder contains the {projectname}.scrivx file that guides Scrivener’s internal processes in doing what you tell it to do, along with other not-to-be-monkeyed-with subfolders. My point is that you’ll want to place the {projectname}.scriv folder in some location that makes sense to you, whether that’s directly under My Documents, or in a folder you’ve created to include all your writing projects, or in a folder called My Greatest Novel Yet, or whatever. Then, as edhead says, be sure to use Scrivener’s backup procedures.