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Because Dropbox wasn’t the issue

To use Scrivener on all three of my devices, I had to find a way to sync my files. That’s because Scrivener itself has no way to do it.

After trying a lot of ideas, I settled on Dropbox. I already had it on my iPhone, iPad, and my Windows® laptop, so it was just a matter of configuring Scrivener to find its files there. But there was a problem: whenever I launched Scrivener on my laptop, it seemed to take forever to load.

Being the Type A personality (read: whiny impatient spoiled brat — and not necessarily in that order) that I am, I reconfigured the program to find its files on my hard drive.

But that didn’t seem to make any difference, so I simply deleted Scrivener.

And that’s when the problems started.

See, while I wasn’t actually writing in Scrivener, I was using it as a kind of fies cabinet for everything I wrote. Which meant I had to reinstall it.

Which I did.

It doesn’t load any faster, but in keeping with Robyn’s First Law of Computing², I use both it and Evernote as my filing cabinets (aka off-site storage.

You might consider either one or both yourself.


¹-Scrivener is a registered trademark of Literature and Latte, Ltd.
²-Robyn’s First Law of Computing: BE PARANOID AND COMPULSIVE!

Robyn Sinéad Sheppard

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Genderqueer asexual curmudgeon. She/her/hers. Time-traveler. Essayist. "Ego sum, ergo sum scribere."

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