Both Lap Tops have hangovers after their trip to town two weeks ago 🙁

All seemed fine with the machines over the weekend in so far as it was possible to switch them on and off without blue screens. Last Monday morning I settled into the office pod in 27 to have a look at the Luckshill Riders book 1 and to regroup and I noticed when opening Scrivener that the ‘last modified’ date was 05/05/2020. Now I know it’s been a slow summer fiction wise but I remember rewriting the Christmas Day scenes at the end of August – and copying and pasting to Evernote and Novel Factory and printing off – it seems I even took a couple of photos of the layout of the Binder for ‘Boxing Day’ ( the next chapter) and a word count. Not sure what happened but I suspect during the trip to the repair shop Dropbox managed to retro sync – the Assus is upstairs in the house and I may not have consciously opened DB – though, in theory, it runs all the time on it. Long and short was Monday morning was not Christmas Day 🙂 At least on Scrivener.

It was a gloomy start even though I had the rewritten stuff – I hadn’t got the ‘snapshots’ or the Boxing Day chapter workings out which would let me just start writing. A friend told me to use memory sticks instead – that didn’t work either as the Scrivener files were conflicted. So I ended up making a new Project and copying the work to a stick as the working copy then I can save that to DropBox – ‘whatever’ I thought, and gritted teeth, and got on with it as best I could.

The next morning was no better this time the Non-Fiction Scrivener files were like adding Super Glue to the HP laptop. I was about fit to be tied 🙁 I persevered finding a different way to add photos to them – it took all day but it made a big difference to the SSD and the HP.

By Wednesday I had enough of tech issues. I caught my paper journals up and went outside instead.

Week Two.

More of the same, this Monday morning, regarding setting up and resetting up Scrivener Projects on the Memory Sticks. Today, Tuesday 13 Oct I did start to go through and do some editing of the first drafts of some of the essays in the projects. I’m not sure if my process is consistent or robust yet so I will work on slowly.