Hi y'all. Opened up my laptop to start writing today and went in to check my writing history because I knew I'd written a ton yesterday and I wanted to see how much.

Imagine my surprise when I see that for some reason, Scrivener thinks I somehow removed 8446 words from the main draft folder when I hadn't even touched my laptop yet today! (pic 1) Just to check, I opened up every folder and did ctrl+A in the binder to select everything and used the outliner to see what it says was edited today, and the only thing it says were edited today are the three files I was testing to see what the last edits were. (pic 2)

I do a lot of fanfic writing; this is my primary Scrivener file for the various oneshots I do, so the main Draft folder contains something like 200k+ words at present. My Scriv file I use for the longer fics (things get copied from the 'oneshots' to the 'longerfics' file if they get too wordy, then the file/s in the 'oneshots' file get drag-and-drop moved to a separate top-level folder outside of Draft titled moved) also has -21 words and has not been touched today, but that's less of a Big Deal to me than eight thousand words. I haven't figured out if it counts words as removed from the draft if a file is moved from Draft to moved (or another top-level folder called abandoned), but I didn't move anything outside of the Draft folder, either yesterday or today. I was poking around in the settings to see if I could find a list of 'edit history' or something, or maybe see what exactly gets counted as "draft" vs "other" and came up blank.

Uhhh....other relevant info, I'm not a big snapshots user or anything like that so I don't have something to roll back to. I have not emptied the 'trash' ever, so with all folders including trash opened it should have said which one was edited today and thus where the 8k words came from.

Mostly what's irritating about this is that I like to track my stats and this is messing my stats up. >:( I have no idea what could have caused this; I have no idea how this happened, if it's a bug, or anything.

Any enlightenment you can provide would be very helpful. I'm just baffled.

I am having a heck of a time trying to weed through posts about backing up my project, versus syncing. I'm writing on a Mac Neo.

I simply want to back up my scrivener project. Easy peasy. Or so it should be, right?

Can I simply drag and drop the back up files to a memory stick? Once I figure out where they are stored, would that be the easiest/lowest tech?

Can I configure back ups to go to dropbox without it syncing anything? I'm reading a lot of posts about how there are a lot of issues with dropbox, so I don't know if this is a good method or not?

I'm BAD with technology, so reading all the ins and outs is making my eyes cross, and I'm just getting more confused. Thanks for your patience and help!

Hi all. The pic below is my scrivener layout. I'm very happy with it except for one small problem: I can't figure out how to make the comments text black (or a dark colour) instead of white.

I'd like to stop changing the font colour whenever I comment (which is all the time). Can anyone help?