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...

I think a lot depends on what you want from beta readers. For instance, like Al, I never want feedback on grammar or punctuation but on story, characters, and any factual errors. A beta reader once caught that I'd attributed something as a Biblical story the is in fact from Aesop's fables. So I may ...

lunk wrote:No, OP wants different colors for each document:

Okay, so Labels.

Have you tested using custom Labels? You set them in the Inspector for each document and can customize the colors any way you want. Custom Label colors are what I was talking about, but setting them as background only affects the mmm not sure what to call it, strip? of color behind the name of each...

You could switch back and forth pretty easily using Themes (can customize your own) right now. It would mean making that one change when you opened a different Project, but it would be quicker and more consistent than re-customizing background each time.