You can still roll back; you just can’t do so with iTunes. Please see my directions for how to roll back with the iMazing app in this thread: [url]https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/how-to-roll-back-to-an-earlier-ios-ipados-version-using-imazing/47312/1]
Hope this helps!
As Ioa said, this is exclusively an iOS 13 issue. There are no reports from any other version of iOS.
However, that does not mean that no one has ever had synchronization issues or lost data with other versions. The vast majority of data losses actually come from successful, but misguided synchronization attempts: the user accidentally syncs an old version on top of the new one, and Dropbox happily complies. If synchronization fails completely, as in this case, you’ll need to use some other method to transfer your project from Device A to Device B, but both versions of the project will remain intact.
The moral of the story? Make backups. Always.
Katherine
Just a quick note: I have upgraded to iPadOs 13.3.1 and it does not solve the problem. Sync still aborts.
Have you tried the fixes to see if any of those work for you with this version?
If you look at the release notes for 13.3.1 it’s just a bunch of small specific bug fixes, nothing that suggests it would fix this issue.
Yes, but it has no effect. The problem is still there.
Thanks for the update, Thomas.
You are welcome. Always.
Facebook algorithm hides posts to a great deal of users. Unless they set to receive all notifications for all posts on the group,they won’t see the poll. And even with that setting, FB may still hide the post. It happens to me all the times. I check manually certain groups. Like I told you on another occasion, I saw the poll because we are friends and I set that group to notify me about posts from friends.
It’s mid Feb 2020 and problem persists on my new ipad running v 13.3.1, with fresh Scrivener install.
Note: on first use, with no Scrivener projects in the Scrivener app, instead of the box asking where to sync when I tap the sync circle, the downloading file list runs 40 seconds then shuts down Scrivener. Zero files sync.
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling Dropbox and Scrivener to no avail.
This renders Scrivener ios useless to me. 
It’s a frustrating bug for L&L, too because of the difficulty to get it to repeat reliably.
It’s not as convenient as automatic Dropbox sync, but you can sync manually through iCloud Drive and it works just fine. Have you tried it? If want to try it but you need detailed instructions, I can post them for you. You should read the recent post from (user) @drmajorbob:
The problem persists and persists and now my little trick with removing one file on my Mac from the Scrivener folder, syncing, then adding it again, then syncing again, doesn’t work anymore because now I have another peristent error message on my iPad that I can’t get rid off, see attachment.
During the last months, I went from using Scrivener on my iPad daily and even more often than on my Mac to using it less and less to avoiding it when I can and now I think I’m done and won’t use it any longer. It was great while it lasted, but I’m exhausted.
See my workaround to continue to work despite the synchronization bug we are facing since IOS 13.
Hope this help
Something curious happened last week after I’d deleted Scrivener from my iPad.
From time to time, for about two or three weeks, Dropbox had prompted me after logging in on my Mac for my admin pw to “change folder permissions.” This seemed to be the known “folder permissions” Dropbox bug, which usually doesn’t go away, no matter what you do. It can be suppressed with a series of terminal commands, but before I did that, I filled in my pw once to check what would happen, and whether the prompt would really come back the next day.
What happened was that Dropbox started to reindex all of my files, which took about two days (for 1.6TB) and annoyed the heck out of me. But after that, everything seemed to be okay, and the prompt never popped up again.
Naturally, I was curious if and how that would relate to the Scrivener sync problem, so I reinstalled Scrivener on my iPad. And what do you know, it synced like a charm, and has synced ever since now for over a week, both on iPadOS 13.3 and 13.3.1.
I know all this is very messy, and I know it won’t help solve the problem, or even answer the question whether it’s a Dropbox or an iOS bug.
But at least, I wanted to share this piece of information.
Interesting news, indeed, thanks for sharing that! It sounds as though in your case it was actually a bit of a malfunction that the Mac Dropbox client recovered from automatically. There is a way to force Dropbox to fully reindex, though it is unfortunately not a terribly friendly process! If anyone is willing to run them for a second confirmation, that would be greatly appreciated!
I tried this with great enthusiasm, but alas, it did not resolve the issue for me. I hope others try it and and works for them!
Just a reminder, for anyone keeping score at home: I have no Dropbox sync problem on my 2017 12.9” iPad Pro. It’s only happening on my iPhone 11 Pro. Both are completely updated with the latest OSes and software.
Thanks for giving it a shot! I wonder if the manual procedure in some way differs from whatever happened in the automatic recovery that gyokusai describes. Whatever the case, it’s the first case of the problem going away for any reason at all, that we’ve heard of, which provides a glimmer of hope that there is some solution out there.
I really tried all the suggested solutions and none of them worked reasonably and reliably. The only thing I can do now is to copy the current project file via iCloud to the Scrivener directory on the iPad and return the same way as soon as I’m done writing. This is a manual and cumbersome way, but at least it works. I still hope that a future version of Scrivener will allow alternative synchronization via the iCloud.
If I don’t get a working process again with the upcoming iOs versions or an update of the Dropbox app, Dropbox-Sync is useless for me.
HI,
I had the non-syncing issue over Xmas and have just fixed it to my satisfaction on my setup. I have an iPad Pro 12.9" and a MacBook Pro, and an iPhone pro max.
I had about 70 scriv files in my dropbox folder. On the iPad I could see all of these in the projects view. then I closed scriv on iPad.
I went onto the MacBook, made sure scriv was closed. opened my dropbox folder and in Apps>Scrivener created a new folder where I saved every unfinished project except for about 5 - note of the 5 I kept one is quite big (for me) with hundreds of sheets in it.
So, now I have 2 folders in my Apps>Scrivener folder. I closed dropbox, went back to iPad and opened scriv, It then synced with dropbox. That took 5+ mins, then, on the iPad, I selected all the scriv files that I had earlier backed up into the second folder on dropbox and deleted them from the iPad, then closed the scriv app on iPad.
Then I made a new scrivener file on Mac, made a few test sheets, saved it. On Mac I saw it save fine to dropbox. then closed scriv on MacBook.
Opened scriv on iPad, synced, saw new file, opened it, added new sheet and some text, went back to projects view and saw it sync to dropbox.
Closed iPad scriv. on MacBook opened scriv and opened the file, the edits were in place.
Then I closed MacBook scriv and created a new file on iPad scriv, let it sync to dropbox, Then on MacBook opened scriv and opened the file. No issues.
I have no idea what it is in what I did that helped, but for my use case this works and I’m very happy with it. I hope some of you have similar results. Best regards,
Morning, everyone!
This bug really bothers me a lot and slows down my work quite a bit. In a new attempt to solve the problem, here’s what happened: