You need to click the topmost level of the Binder, be in Scrivenings mode and then click in the Editor. That way the Editor is showing All and you can Select all.

Start writing, instead og spending time on how you should do this or that. You can change the structure later, change documents into folders (it’s only the icon that differ), etc. The text you see on the cards in corkboard view is the Synopsis, which you either write on the cards on the corkboard, o...

Dropbox only saves the most recently changed files within the Scrivener folder structure. Yes, of course it does. The project .scriv is a folder with sub-folders and lots of files. One for every single item in the binder. So the Dropbox app uploads those single files that are changed when you edit ...

Last week I used 'Save As' once to create a duplicate project under a new name, as my WIP novel has changed title. The data losses have been occurring with the new project. As an addition to Devinganger's post: Did you save that new version to the same Dropbox location as the old project? If so you...

Rapscallion wrote:Some time later, I will open Scrivener on iPhone and perform the sync before opening the project.

Did iOS Scrivener tell you that the Dropbox version had changed, before you tapped the sync icon?

Thank you. I actually watched the whole tutorial Katherine referred to the built-in interactive tutorial that you start from the Help menu in Scrivener. It’s a Scrivener project that walks you through all the basics in Scrivener. It takes some time to do it all but it is worth the time and effort.

Handling of scientific literature is so much more than just writing. And writing science is so much more than just handling scientific literature. Sometimes the two meet, but most of the time not. Scrivener is a complex piece of software. Good literature handling software are also complex. Combining...

Backups are by default saved as .zip
The live projects are .scriv

If you deleted all .zip it's likely you deleted all your backups, but not the .scriv files.
Are you using any kind of cloud service, that you also cleaned out?

You can have the projects you want to sync in any subfolder of the Dropbox folder that the Dropbox app creates on your HD when you install it on your Mac.

https://scrivener.tenderapp.com/help/kb ... os-syncing

No, how the Binder titles are displayed in the Binder is setup under Tools -> Options, and it does not carry over to the compile settings. You have to define how the Binder titles should be included in the text when you decide how the layout should be. Binder titles are not part of the Editor text.

Is the Dropbox app running on the Mac?

Have you told iOS Scrivener where to look for the projects? You need to set it up, in iOS Scriv on the iPad. In the opening project screen, Edit, cog wheel at the bottom, Dropbox settings.

kc3 wrote:I don't actually know when the text disappeared so that makes it harder to figure out what happened.

If you don’t remember what you did or when or when the text disappeared, how do you expect anyone else to explain what happened?

You didn’t by any chance make a Save As... at any point, saving with a new name after having created those documents but before actually filling them with text? And then by mistake later open the old version instead of the new one with the new name?

drmajorbob wrote:You could use project replace to do the same thing for everything, and you probably should.

But it doesn't work if there are non-breaking spaces, as Xiamenese pointed out.