What is the best way to save and back up with Scrivener?
Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2019 9:32 am
Hi,
I'm new to Scrivener. I bought it to work on my first movie script but am now using it to organise and write a dissertation! It's important that I don't lose my work. As I understand it there isn't a cloud save feature that is reliable, what there is is a local save and DropBox backup. I want to know the best practice for saving with this program.
I've had a read at L&L guide: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/the-low-down-on-backing-up
Should I not have backups zip because of the risk of file corruption?
If I use the DropBox backup does this mean there will no longer be a local backup?
Is the best option to copy my Scrivener project after closing, manually to the cloud?
Also, I'd like to add that I am unable to move or copy any Scrivener files I make. I'm using the macOS Catalina beta. When I click once on my Scrivener project in the Finder menu it automatically opens the program. Is this a beta specific problem?
I'm new to Scrivener. I bought it to work on my first movie script but am now using it to organise and write a dissertation! It's important that I don't lose my work. As I understand it there isn't a cloud save feature that is reliable, what there is is a local save and DropBox backup. I want to know the best practice for saving with this program.
I've had a read at L&L guide: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/blog/the-low-down-on-backing-up
Should I not have backups zip because of the risk of file corruption?
If I use the DropBox backup does this mean there will no longer be a local backup?
Is the best option to copy my Scrivener project after closing, manually to the cloud?
Also, I'd like to add that I am unable to move or copy any Scrivener files I make. I'm using the macOS Catalina beta. When I click once on my Scrivener project in the Finder menu it automatically opens the program. Is this a beta specific problem?