I found from this site
http://davidmkelly.net/2013/02/24/scrivener-auto-save-blues-reprise/
that the 2 second auto-save was on, no wonder it was slow. I've changed this to the maximum of 500 seconds...and have also tried disabling other features and it is still unusably slow

Sadly I'll need to abandon working with Scrivener for a while...it's been a great way to get a lot of material into one place. It started slowing down at around 50,000 words but now that I'm at 100,000 words Scrivener is painfully slow and I'll need to resort to another method. I'll be back...in a y...

$ sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i scrivener-1.5.3.1-beta.deb (Reading database ... 350659 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace scrivener:i386 1.5.3.1 (using scrivener-1.5.3.1-beta.deb) ... Unpacking replacement scrivener:i386 ... Setting up scrivener:i386 (1.5.3.1) ......

Was about to install this but Ubuntu Software Centre gives me this error Lintian check results for /home/hamish/Downloads/scrivener-1.2.6-beta.deb: Use of uninitialized value $ENV{"HOME"} in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/lintian line 108. E: scrivener: maintainer-name-missing lee...

okay,
so all I needed to do was



works great! Thanks!

Ah, all this is a bit over my head. The last version installed fine for me, though now I'm using Ubuntu Studio 12.04 precise 64-bit This is what I've tried and I'm not sure what to do next or how to sort out the missing libraries... Any advice appreciated! hamish@machine:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i --...