It seems someone on the forums created such a script. I believe I linked to one earlier. The main problem I have with it (aside from the fact that I haven't gotten it to work right on Mavericks) is that it quits Dropbox instead of simply pausing it. My Dropbox is otherwise large enough that it's an...

Note that I do not use File->Save (or the keyboard shortcut) at all, which could very well be the way some people trigger conflicts. Unfortunately, the ⌘-S shortcut is just too heavily ingrained in me after years of Ctrl-S on Windows machines that had a tendency to crash unexpectedly. I don't even ...

For those who want something more robust than a Keyboard Maestro script, it is possible to make OS X take care of this for you automatically by using a launch agent . Thanks for this, though as stopping/starting Dropbox is a relatively heavy operation, I don't suppose there's any way of modifying t...

That's pretty much what I expected, unfortunately. Thank you for the quick response, even if it was a pretty stupid question most likely.

What is the current recommendation regarding using Scrivener with Dropbox on OS X? Currently, I keep my .scriv file (err, bundle? I forget the term. Whatever a glorified folder is) in a folder on Dropbox. I pause Dropbox's syncing (Menu Bar -> Gear -> Pause Syncing) before opening Scrivener, and unp...

When I first wrote the novel, it was in blog posts, where each post was a scene, basically. So each scene ended up with a title. However, several of my beta readers pointed out that something like a third of the scene titles are like "Conversation between friends" and "Conversation in...

Aha, excellent. Yes, I can definitely see sometimes wanting to get the higher level, and sometimes wanting the nitty-gritty. That option gives me exactly what I want! The main thing with giving a title to every scene is either they are so generic as to be useless ("Alice talks with Bob", w...

Hm. Suppose I have chapters made up of multiple scenes. When I look at each chapter in corkboard mode, it shows me a card for each scene. However, when I go up to Draft, I only get one card for each chapter. Is there a way to instead show all the composite cards of a chapter, or do I have to provide...

Awesome! That answers my question. Thanks for the quick response.

I'm looking at using Scrivener as my tool for doing a full re-write/revision/edit of my novel, and a lot of the features look awesome for that. However, there is one thing--what I'd plan to do is use the corkboard to go through and outline all the major events of the story (since I have it written, ...

AmberV wrote:Sounds like misanthropomorphising to me.

I don't have any other response to that.

Wouldn't that be interpretable via context (not a greek scholar by any stretch)? Yes, I understood what he meant. I was simply being pedantic (if there's one place I figure I can be pedantic about language, it's among a bunch of writers), though trying to be less-than-serious about it. But the defi...

garpu wrote:I'm a misanthrope when it comes to computers.

You're a person who hates people when it comes to computers?

(Remember, "misanthrope" comes from the Greek words "miso" and "anthropos", which are "hate" and "man (person)", respectively...)

For linguistic purposes, I would consider it either grammar or (more specifically) typesetting. Remember, the origin of the double-space was the fact that before typewriters, typesetting would have a longer space between sentences than between words. However, from a spellcheck algorithm point of vie...

For some reason, I was under the impression that Lee was using Aspell, which is a pretty standard free spellcheck library.