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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.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

#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.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

#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.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

#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.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

#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.

#writing #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #dropbox

¿Quieres saber cuántas #matrices tiene tu manuscrito? Es muy útil para pedir presupuesto de #corrección, #editing, #maquetación o #InformesDeLectura.

Da igual si usas #Word, #GoogleDocs o #Scrivener, la respuesta está aquí 👇

https://s.mtrbio.com/mafjmikgij