Saving documents

[blueocean]

Well I procrastinated with my writing for 2 days trying to figure out:
YWriter or Storybox? YWriter won out. So 10,000 words in my novel, I
saved my partial scene and the next day I started working on a new
scene before I realized the previous scene had 0 word count.

When I checked the autosave feature it only backed up the current
scene today. How come I couldn't select from yesterday? In the setup I
used the sequential recommended "save every 5 mins."

Why doesn't YWriter automatically save the document the way StoryBox
does? That was the only thing I liked about StoryBox over YWriter. I'm
so nervous now to continue writing in YWriter and I love it so much.

[Michelle Norton]

Did you check the autosave folder?

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[Janna Willard]

It saves my stuff. But I always close a scene by hitting the 'Save and Exit' button at the bottom right.

-Janna

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[Simon Haynes]

blueocean wrote:

> Well I procrastinated with my writing for 2 days trying to figure out:
> YWriter or Storybox? YWriter won out. So 10,000 words in my novel, I
> saved my partial scene and the next day I started working on a new
> scene before I realized the previous scene had 0 word count.
>
> When I checked the autosave feature it only backed up the current
> scene today. How come I couldn't select from yesterday? In the setup I
> used the sequential recommended "save every 5 mins."
>
> Why doesn't YWriter automatically save the document the way StoryBox
> does? That was the only thing I liked about StoryBox over YWriter. I'm
> so nervous now to continue writing in YWriter and I love it so much.
>

It does autosave - when you close a scene or the program, the scene data is written out. While the scene is open it writes autobackups. It also takes an snapshot of the whole project when you first open it for the day.

If there's nothing in autobackups, are you certain you loaded the same project?

Autosaves are by date, so there should be a folder for yesterday as well.

Cheers
Simon
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[Ray Walsh]

Simon

I've been using yWriter for a few months now, and I like it. I've also
tried others including the new beta of Scrivener for Windows. The only
function I envied Scrivener users for was the ability to take a
snapshot whenever. I've been thinking of writing and asking you about
it.

Then I read in your post: "It also takes an snapshot of the whole

project when you first open it for the day."

Well done!

[Dave Shaw]

Also see Tools/Backups/Backup entire project.

Dave Shaw
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"The universe doesn't care what you believe. The wonderful thing about
science is that it doesn't ask for your faith, it just asks for your
eyes" --- http://xkcd.com/c154.html

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From: "Ray Walsh" <raywa...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 2:28 AM
To: "yWriter" <ywr...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [yWriter] Re: Saving documents

[blueocean]

What a great community! Thank you all for your help. I found my
document. As someone said I must of saved it in another project. I'm
not sure what happened but I'm back in love with the program however I
export the project as an rtf file after a marathon session -- just in
case :-) There's no worse feeling than losing a scene. Of course in my
mind the missing scene was my genius scene. Good luck to y'all with
your writing.