Thank you for this Tribal Rose. I'm in the middle of a project right now and it's a little risky for me to reinstall my whole system again with a new ID. If I don't find a solution by the I finish my project I will investigate your solution. For now I guess I'll be reinstalling the app each time I ...

I've had two instances of lag time typing. The first was fixed when I upped the auto-save interval, which you've already addressed. The second was probably unique, but just in case - I purchased my MacBook Pro used. It came to me with a single user i.d. on it. I tried everything that supposedly woul...

I'm one of those who didn't find Scrivener all that difficult to get started with. Maybe because I still use WordPerfect? :o I did go through the Tutorial, and skipped and skimmed anything I didn't need to know right that minute. Then I imported a 3-chapter short and played with it for awhile. After...

Vellum. I wanted a better and easier way to format my ebooks badly enough to get a MacBook Pro (used 15"). In rationalizing the expense, I told myself I could use Scriv 3 on it. Hated everything about the Mac except the retina screen at first, but I liked that so much it lured me to work at it....

Well, only if the inactive PCs were last synchronized recently enough to have the lost data, but before the data loss occurred. And only if you were aware that you needed to prevent them from synchronizing. Unless I get in gear and start writing a lot faster, that wouldn't be a problem. :? As I sai...

I understand that the Dropbox server cannot be considered for backup in the same light as, say, Carbonite. However, I don't understand how Dropbox on several computers with copies of one's work on all isn't a backup of sorts. In other words, I have 4 PCs (it just sort of happened), and Dropbox is on...

If you don't want any of your Labels color-coded, all you have to do is not enable Label color anywhere under the View menu > Use Label Color In. You can also choose to have it show some places and not others. If you mean you do have Label color enabled to show some places, but don't want it to show...

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Since no one else has answered so far, I'll tell you what I do with much smaller, single book projects. My methods don't qualify as very sophisticated, though, and I'm not clear on whether you want to have the date, events, and characters visible for the project overall at a glance or for each chapt...

P.S. The biggest issue folk I know have had moving from Apple to Windows laptops is the touchpad. Apple nailed the touchpad, and for some reason, other laptop manufacturers have struggled to achieve the same ease of use. That's interesting because when I started using a MacBook Pro (got a new but d...

I wouldn't switch to Scrivener with a novel already written through first draft. IMO first draft is where Scriv really shines, and learning and experimenting with a long project that's really important would be pretty frustrating. As a for instance, when I was first experimenting, every time I tried...

I use Label to indicate point of view character of a given scene. Since I write Romance, that's pretty much hero and heroine, but I like to see the balance of scenes between them, and occasionally I do have a third party as the viewpoint character. I have Label color turned on pretty much every plac...

I just tried it because I'm busy procrastinating over something else I should be doing. I had to highlight a document in the Editor before the Linguistic Focus wasn't grayed out. However, since I didn't look it up in the manual or anything, I'm not sure what it's supposed to do. All I got was a litt...

I have no idea if such a thing would work, maybe Katherine will come back and say, but since you planned a lot of work today - and probably tomorrow - would it be possible to download a trial version of Scrivener and work with that until the problem is fixed? Maybe if you temporarily renamed the mai...

As Katherine said, if all you want is one long document, why use Scrivener? That's what you get with Word or any other word processor. I've also always been a linear writer. However, there were times I needed to move one scene ahead of another because after I wrote them it would be apparent they wor...