Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:25 pm Post
Mon Nov 20, 2017 10:35 pm Post
Tue Nov 21, 2017 12:21 am Post
wayofthefuture wrote: Stop the Dropbox crap. Start supporting iCloud sync.
Tue Nov 21, 2017 8:44 am Post
Wed Nov 22, 2017 8:43 pm Post
sidderke wrote:I also would like iCloud Sync because Apple has more options than Dropbox, which only has their 10 dollar/1TB option or Free. BUT...
- Dropbox Sync has been working fine for me. And in the past, a lot quicker and more transparant than iCloud Drive.
- I *love* Scrivener's package format. LOVE IT. It's genius, and one of the best unsung features. It's quick, it makes for fast sync, and quick working on whatever system. I have projects that are 7GB's big. That's because of big Research files in there, but if I work on them, I only work on megabytes of data. So all the sync, even on the phone on 4G, goes quick. Can you imagine every time having to sync 7GB? No thanks.
I get it. People want iCloud Sync. But Keith has in detail provided an answer WHY it isn't supported. Your post shows you probably haven't read it. RDale put it perfectly: iCloud doesn't support Scrivener's format. Not the other way around. Keith has talked about it with Apple. Nothing changed as of yet. if iCloud allows it, Scrivener will allow it, I'm sure.
Happy Launch! Waiting anxiously for the Mac App Store Update
Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:55 pm Post
Pavel wrote:sidderke wrote:I also would like iCloud Sync because Apple has more options than Dropbox, which only has their 10 dollar/1TB option or Free. BUT...
- Dropbox Sync has been working fine for me. And in the past, a lot quicker and more transparant than iCloud Drive.
- I *love* Scrivener's package format. LOVE IT. It's genius, and one of the best unsung features. It's quick, it makes for fast sync, and quick working on whatever system. I have projects that are 7GB's big. That's because of big Research files in there, but if I work on them, I only work on megabytes of data. So all the sync, even on the phone on 4G, goes quick. Can you imagine every time having to sync 7GB? No thanks.
I get it. People want iCloud Sync. But Keith has in detail provided an answer WHY it isn't supported. Your post shows you probably haven't read it. RDale put it perfectly: iCloud doesn't support Scrivener's format. Not the other way around. Keith has talked about it with Apple. Nothing changed as of yet. if iCloud allows it, Scrivener will allow it, I'm sure.
Happy Launch! Waiting anxiously for the Mac App Store Update
I've not kept up to date with all of this but for a long time I've saved my files locally, while at each quite I have a backup made to my iCloud drive. If I ever want it on my other machine I go and get the last cloud backup and copy it to the other local drive and run it. I've not had any problems with this semi-manual sort of sync. Is there anything I should be doing otherwise or that is a pending problem with my methodology?
I don't particularly want a drop-box account as I was never very happy with it's performance in years past and it seems that their data counting is suspect, or used to be, but am willing to consider trying it again if need be.
Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:24 pm Post
sidderke wrote:I get it. People want iCloud Sync. But Keith has in detail provided an answer WHY it isn't supported. Your post shows you probably haven't read it. RDale put it perfectly: iCloud doesn't support Scrivener's format. Not the other way around.
Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:45 pm Post
Tue Nov 28, 2017 1:00 am Post
Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:55 am Post
LuckyJack wrote:This is truly a mystery to me. A package, such as a Scrivener project, is just a directory. Finder will show you its contents with the Show Package Contents option in the action menu, and at a shell prompt/terminal window, you can just "cd" into it like any other directory.
Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:52 am Post
LuckyJack wrote:I don't want to swim upstream, but I'm not sure why iCloud would have any trouble syncing a folder. The user might have trouble telling when iCloud is finished syncing, I can certainly see that, and a partially synced Scrivener project would be a disaster.
For a view of a similar sort of thing, drop to a command prompt and use the unzip command against a .docx "file". It's a file, sure enough, but it's a file that might as well end in .zip instead of .docx. You can unzip a docx file and look at the parts and pieces if you want. Docx files are zip archives.
Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:53 am Post
kewms wrote:A .DOCX file is not equivalent, precisely because it *is* a ZIP file. All of its components are compressed in a single unit and travel together. It's not possible to email part of a DOCX file; it is trivially easy to email part of a Scrivener project.
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