If that doesn’t work and you can’t find your S1 license code, you can go here and ask them to email it to you. When I did that it found my license code from my S1 installation. When you’re ready to buy, run S3 and click the “Upgrade from an older version” link on the trial window. You can use the trial version for 30 days. Go to this page and download the free trial version first: If you have a license for S1 you may be eligible for a discount on S3, depending on when you bought S1. Eventually I converted all the remaining files to S3 and never went back to S1. Once I was comfortable with it (meaning I would get really frustrated when I had to work in S1) I started converting my files to S3 as I needed to work with them. I used my links to the S1 program to work with my “live” files while I climbed that learning curve. I opened it in S3 and it immediately made a backup, which I deleted because I didn’t need a backup of a copy. When I first installed the beta, I made a copy of one of my Scrivener files so that I could learn the new software.

I’ve been running beta versions of S3 for over a year.

S3 does not import anything from S1, so if you’ve customized some of the global settings you’ll have to re-do them in S3.

Before you install S3, make sure you have a link to the S1 program somewhere… pinned to the start menu, pinned to the taskbar, and/or a shortcut on your desktop. If you click on a Scrivener file, it will open in S3.

Scrivener 3 will become the default application for Scrivener files.

If you open an S1 file in S3, it will make a backup of the S1 file in the same directory, and then convert the file to the new format.

DO NOT install it into your current Scrivener directory!

Scrivener 3 (S3 hereafter) installs into a new directory, ‘Scrivener3’ by default.

But you can run both versions for a while to ease the pain. You’ll be moving to the equivalent of Mac versions 2 and 3. If you’re already using Scrivener 1, there’s going to be a bit of a learning curve. So if you’re a Windows user who’s been jealous of your Mac friends using all those fancy new features, you can rejoice now. No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Day joke! The Windows version of Scrivener 3 has finally been released.

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