How Do I Override Sync Direction?

Q & A
#1

I’m a Long-time Scrivener and Aeon Timeline user. Upgraded to Aeon v3 when it came out, but it was so different from v2, and I just wanted to get on with my Scrivener project, that I stuck with Aeon v2. But now I’m doing a restructuring of my Scrivener project and realized it’s time to upgrade to Aeon v3. After a bit of experimentation I upgraded my Aeon v2 file to v3, rather than create a fresh v3 file.

I’d done things between Scrivener and Aeon v2 that v3 doesn’t quite understand, so I’ve had to work on what syncs with what.

My latest issue is event titles between Scrivener and Aeon v3. I finally got Aeon to recognize they should be synced, but Aeon thinks its version of the title is the latest. It is not. In Aeon v2 I could override direction of sync. I don’t see how to do that in Aeon v3. It wants to overwrite all my Scrivener event titles. I’ve got about 150 events.

How do I tell Aeon to accept Scrivener’s event titles?

#2

Hi @ScottyDM I get the feeling we might need to dig into this one a bit more to give you the assistance you need.

Would it be possible for you to send through a copy of your Timeline and Scrivener project files so we can have a look? It’ll help us replicate what you are seeing and work out what the issue is.

You can email them to us at support@aeontimeline.com

If you have concerns about sending over your entire Scrivener project, we only need the .scrivx file (which just has the binder and custom metadata information, not the content of the documents). You can access this file by right-clicking on the Scrivener project in Finder and choosing Show Package Contents.

Thanks!

#3

Thank you, AeonRob, but I’ve fixed it by retyping the desired titles into Aeon, so my files have changed. I don’t remember what I did to get the condition where Aeon thinks the newer Scrivener title is older than the Aeon title.

In Aeon v2 each item was individually synced, which is time consuming and requires the Scrivener project be closed. But the power of v2 is that you could override the direction, or pick a direction if Aeon thought both sources had changed since last sync.

Maybe this should be a feature request, controlled via the “Linked Items” list (right side) when an individual event is selected. Unfortunately I’ve got my project’s .scrivx file open in VSCode (after doing a backup) because I’m trying to figure something out. Maybe I can set up a sync event later and take a screenshot.

Thanks.

#4

Hey @ScottyDM you should still get the option to choose which version of the title to keep when syncing items for the first time, or when the title is changed to something different in both apps.

Start by selecting the scene in the sync panel, clicking Change, selecting the version in the other app, and then choosing which version you want to keep.

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