A .scriv project is not one file but a folder: a .scrivx file with the binder, and every
document of the binder as its own RTF file named by a number or a long code. That is why Word,
Pages or a text editor cannot open it, and why opening the .scrivx on its own shows only XML.
Upload the whole project and get it back in formats every computer opens.
How to open a Scrivener project without Scrivener
- Find the project. On a Mac it looks like a single file named
My Novel.scriv; on Windows it is a folder with that name. - Compress it (Mac: right-click, Compress; Windows: right-click, Send to > Compressed
(zipped) folder) and upload the
.zip. - Look through the binder and the start of the first document on the result page, then download what you need.
What you can read afterwards
- The manuscript as one Word document, an EPUB e-book and Markdown, in binder order with comments and footnotes.
- Every document on its own, in folders named like the binder's, as Word, RTF and Markdown, with its notes, plus research PDFs and pictures under their binder titles.
- Snapshots with their dates, so older versions of a scene are not lost.
- The binder outline as an Excel sheet: titles, synopses, labels, status, keywords, word counts and dates, and a report with the notes.
Which projects
Scrivener 3 for Mac and Windows, Scrivener 2 for Mac, Scrivener 1 for Mac and Windows, and the
Scrivener for Linux beta. A ZIP backup made by Scrivener can be uploaded as it is. If you only
have the .scrivx file, you still get the binder outline, but the text is in the project's
Files folder, so look for the rest of the project.
Results are deleted after 30 minutes.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Scrivener Project Converter.