It's on one computer. I don't use sync or cloud. I email backups to myself.

There have been no problems with backups. I back up after I finish every single chapter. I save regularly. It is not one long file its multiple text files within Scrivener and it'll just delete chunks of text from wherever it pleases. I've been using it quite a long time and this isn't the first tim...

There are no tables, but lots of comments & notes. I have 5 images in 2 different text files & the rest is text.
228500 Words in research (because I need it handy)
57500 for the revised MS.
Yes, it's a lot of words, but this shouldn't be a problem for something that is made for writers.

I stopped counting how many time Scrivener has deleted words from my manuscript. I stopped counting the times we were told Version 3 will be released soon. Scrivener doesn't handle large files well at all & I'm tired of waiting & tired of losing texts. Not only am I having major chunks of my...