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#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?
I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.
In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.
The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.
Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.
Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.
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#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?
I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.
In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.
The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.
Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.
Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.
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#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?
I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.
In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.
The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.
Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.
Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.
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#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?
I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.
In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.
The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.
Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.
Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.
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#scrivener users: Has anyone revisited a project and found that random updated files are empty?
I've discovered I have three such files in that state in one project synced between Mac, iPad, and iPhone—but I have auto backups and mobile syncs, so content is recoverable, though maybe not the last edit.
In my case, each empty file has a last mobile sync of Aug 22, 2026 at 12:40 PM. That they all have the same snapshot time is significant, not the specific timestamp.
The first file I found empty, after the initial panic because these are chapters in a novel, I thought maybe I accidentally did a select all backspace. It could happen. I searched the backups, but could find nothing after the date stated above, so did a rollback to the mobile sync snapshot.
Last night around midnight, I found a second file. Today, suspicious, I checked every single file in the project, and found a third empty file.
Wondering if this ever happened to other writers. No doubt Scrivener devs at support will blame Dropbox. I am asking for feedback to find out if it happened to anybody else before I report it.
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@aki It's a great tool. I've used it for the opposite: to take a Word doc exported by Scrivener to convert to Markdown, then imported into novelWriter. It took a little custom code to handle quirks in novelWriter's dialect of Markdown, but other than that it made it much easier to leave Scrivener behind.
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Windows-Software mit CrossOver unter Linux installieren
Meine Hoffnungen waren groß, aber längst nicht alles, das ich getestet habe lief: #CrossoverLinux bringt Windows-Software unter #Linux zum Laufen. Und die Bedienung ist ziemlich einfach. Adobe Reader, Scrivener, Papyrus und GOG Galaxy beispielsweise laufen prima, bei anderen gibt es Fallstricke.
#AdobeReader #Codeweavers #CrossOverLinux #Crossover #Linux #PapyrusAutor #Scrivener #Wine