I finished the first draft of a translation. My Scrivener 3.0 project contains text, and only text (OK, maybe some *.rtf text snuck in).
Pleased with my work and having suffered waaay too many external drive failures (not to mention internal drive failures) I attempted to email a copy of my work to myself, thus protecting my work until that time when Google decides to close my account or go out of business.
The file name for the attachment was “mediocre_translation.scriv”.
Google transmogrified this to “mediocre_translation.scriv.zip”.
A few minutes later, Google advised me that it would not transmit my message because “it may contain a virus”.
Assuming user error of some unknown kind, I duplicated my original file and changed its name to “mediocre_translation.zip”.
But Google was not to be fooled so easily: same warning message and no delivery.
So is there a way to email *.scriv files to myself without angering the Google gods? Maybe a secret extension? *.ace? (just kidding)
There has to be some way to do this. Maybe .001, .002 files, but my file isn’t that large, less than 500 kb.
Maybe Google Mail (you are referring to Google Mail, aren’t you?) has a problem with the .scriv package format.
Why don’t you mail an actual .zip file of your project to yourself? You haven’t turned off automatic backup of your projects, have you? By default Scrivener backs up zipped projects to a folder separate from the actual projects folder. So you could even use a cloud service of your choice for the zipped backups (unlike with .scriv files!).
I agree, I don’t really understand the need for emailing the project. I would just zip it and save it in the cloud somewhere. You could even set up a free account somewhere just for the purpose of holding that zipped project. Mega, Box, Sync, and many others have free space available in the cloud.
This does not work. You can’t send a *.zip file; it is caught by Google’s anti-virus filters.
I tried, As it turns out, the *.zip extension, along with ab out 20 others, is banned by Google.
The reason for emailing the project is to have a back-up.
You cannot mail yourself a zip file on google, unless --perhaps–your destination email is outside of Google. But then you’re relying on that server.
I realize that Google may flake in the long-run. But it is, at least, “good enough for now.”
Yes, but there are simpler, less time consuming ways to save a backup to the cloud than going through your list of steps above. If that’s your goal, then emailing it to yourself is unnecessary. This is mbbntu’s point. Just save the zip file to a cloud service, any cloud service. If you’re a already a fan of google, than save your zip backup to google drive. You’re on Apple, so iCloud would be convenient as well.
When it comes to backups, convenience is a good thing. The less friction the better.
Yeah, I think that’s the ideal advice. The system I use (Tresorit) allows me to have Scrivener’s automatic backup folder synced dynamically, so whenever I save or close a project the redundancy of having multiple backups, one of which is online, is something I don’t even think about: ⌘S and my involvement is complete.
But if one is dead set on using an email service like this for backups, this thread has the necessary workarounds.
Yes, exactly. My Scrivener backup folder, along with all the other data on my PC***, is synced to OneDrive. No fuss, no muss, completely passive. (***Except for my live Scrivener projects, which sync to DropBox.)
Wouldn’t it be easier to just install the Google Drive “Backup and Sync” software, and point your Scrivener backups settings to the sync on your hard drive?
Yea, my practice is about the same as AmberV and JimRac, in that I have Scrivener preferences set up so that backups (which are all zipped) go to a folder that is synchronised to the cloud (OneDrive at the moment). But in addition to that I have Time Machine backups, and I also use BackBlaze.
But whatever cloud service you pick—the automatic backup to zip feature of Scrivener and the options to chose when to backup and how many backups you want to keep keeps you from all the hassle once you have set it up.