Wed Oct 09, 2019 2:37 pm Post
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Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:03 pm Post
Are you positively absolutely 100% sure you put the *shortcut* on the desktop and not the actual *scrivx* file?writer1865 wrote:...and put the shortcut on my desktop...
Wed Oct 09, 2019 9:09 pm Post
JimRac wrote:Are you positively absolutely 100% sure you put the *shortcut* on the desktop and not the actual *scrivx* file?writer1865 wrote:...and put the shortcut on my desktop...
Asking because, as rdale pointed out, what you've described is *exactly* what would happen if you moved a scrivx file to your desktop (or any other folder) and then opened it.
Best,
Jim
Wed Oct 09, 2019 11:17 pm Post
JimRac wrote:Are you positively absolutely 100% sure you put the *shortcut* on the desktop and not the actual *scrivx* file?writer1865 wrote:...and put the shortcut on my desktop...
Asking because, as rdale pointed out, what you've described is *exactly* what would happen if you moved a scrivx file to your desktop (or any other folder) and then opened it.
Best,
Jim
Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:52 pm Post
Hi writer1865,writer1865 wrote:I am 100% positive I did not accidentally drag the .scrivx file to my desktop. All I did was put a shortcut there.
I did not check the extension of the shortcut because it vanished when Scrivener did its weird thing. It's done this twice to me on two different computers. I've been using Scrivener for several years now on various projects, and only in the last month have I encountered this bug.
Actually, once you take into account that Scrivener thinks your Desktop folder is a project folder, these actions make sense. Scrivener adds Snapshots, Settings, etc. to Desktop to make it a valid project folder. And when Scrivener backs up your shiny new Desktop project folder, it backups up *everything* in the project folder, just like it would do with any project folder. Backup is just a copy of your project folder, with an optional zip.writer1865 wrote:Even if I had accidentally dragged the project to the desktop, it should in theory still leave the Snapshot, Settings, etc., folders still my Documents. Also, when the project backed up, it should only have backed up what I typed into the Scrivener project or what I imported. Scrivener should not have grabbed everything on my desktop and backed that up, too. I have placed Scrivener projects directly on my desktop before, and run them on my desktop, and they have never done this.
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