Ron, I got a message saying my usage was reaching a limit. I sent it to my email to save it. It won't open in downloads. Which app or program will open it?
Hey David-- The usage limit is probably coming from your wireless provider-- DubScript itself has no such limit. (You can probably use wifi to get around any data limits imposed by your mobile provider...)
If you sent it to your email with the "Share" button in DubScript, say in Gmail or another email app, it should be attached to your email. You asked "which app or program will open it" -- do you mean from the email app on the Android device? If you tap it in the email, you should have the option to save the attached file to local storage. From there you should be able to select it from DubScript. If you meant you want to open it on your PC-- you should be able to save the attachment to disk and then open with any text editor (TextEdit on Mac, Notepad on Windows, GEdit on Linux, etc.)
You can also cut/paste to or from Google Docs, for example. Hopefully this answers your question-- if not, could you explain which app you want to open it from/with, and on what computer/phone?
Thru my email, I downloaded it.( I'm using android on a Galaxy 13). It says I don't have an ap that can open it. I'm able to open other d/loads that are text only. If I could "send" or " forward' it somewhere, would that help? I sure wish I wouldn't have done this. I was at 265 pages just so you know. I appreciate your help.
Sorry-- I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "Thru my email, I downloaded it." -- that is, I'm not 100% clear what you used to send it through your email, and where you downloaded it to. But if I understand correctly, you sent the screenplay file to yourself via email (using the "Share.." button on DubScript on your phone? As opposed to say, copy and pasting it into an email, right?)
So now you have the screenplay file as an attachment in the email, but if you tap it on the email program (gmail or something else?) it is saying nothing can open it.
If this is correct, can you try the following steps? Make sure you first have the latest DubScript installed on the phone, then...
From your email app on your phone, such as the gmail app, open the email with the attachment and tap the download icon, which in gmail looks like an arrow pointing down to a line. So say the file was called "sample.fountain", you'd tap the download icon.
The file should download from your email app to your phone, and depending on your version of Android, you should see maybe a notification saying "Download complete."
Now that the file has been downloaded, open the DubScript app and, in the Read Screen, you should see an icon of a folder-- the "open file" item. Press this item.
Now you just need to select the file on the device from where you downloaded it. By default, the gmail app will save the attachment to the Downloads folder. You can just navigate to Downloads and find the file. If it makes it easier, you can press the three dots on the top right to change the "Sort by..." order of the lists of files (say to "Modified (Newest first)"). Again, depending on your version of Android, this menu may be slightly different.
Once you've found the file (in this example it was "sample.fountain", and highlighted it with a tap, you can choose the "Open" button and the file should load into DubScript. You can probably double-tap it to automatically open it as well.
That's it-- the file should now be loaded up and ready to be viewed, printed, or edited.
If this doesn't work, there are a few other options:
1. Tap the attachment in the email program itself instead of saving it. On most recent versions of Android, DubScript should recognize the file type (provided it is a fountain file, of course) and then offer to open the file straight from the email program. It will ask you to choose a new save location for the file, since it can't save directly back to the email attachment.
If that doesn't work--
Try downloading the fountain screenplay from the mail app to the Downloads directory, and then use the "Files" app that comes with most versions of Android (or download a File Manager app from the Play Store), select the file, and try to open it from there. You will again (on most recent versions of Android) be asked to select DubScript to open the file-- as before since you are not directly openign the file in DubScript but rather the Files app, you will be asked to choose a new save location.
If THAT doesn't work, and hopefully by now it has, you can always use a computer (mac, Linux, windows) to get the file from the email-- you can then paste the screenplay text to something like Google Docs, then use the Google Docs on the phone to copy/paste it back into a blank DubScript editor and then output to PDF or whatever.
Phew!
Got one more idea-- In the "Write" screen, there is a menu item called "Recovery Backups"-- as you write and when you save, it creates local backups on the device you are writing on. This is yet another way you can get access to older versions of the script-- you can just save them to the device (or to a remote location).
(Please check out the "Help & Info" menu item as it tells you a little more about "Recovery Backups" and how they work.)
I'm really curious what that "usage limit" message was-- it's 100% not something that DubScript does. The only time I've heard of that message offhand is if you're running out of data usage, but unless you are saving to the cloud, you shouldn't be using any data just to save locally to your device.
Good luck, hopefully something here will be helpful, and please do report back!
I just had another thought--- maybe your 'usage limit' is connected with a cloud service you were using to save the file? You could be using any number of cloud services, but could the limit be coming from them?
Anyway, hope the above helps.
Hey David--The usage limit…
Hey David-- The usage limit is probably coming from your wireless provider-- DubScript itself has no such limit. (You can probably use wifi to get around any data limits imposed by your mobile provider...)
If you sent it to your email with the "Share" button in DubScript, say in Gmail or another email app, it should be attached to your email. You asked "which app or program will open it" -- do you mean from the email app on the Android device? If you tap it in the email, you should have the option to save the attached file to local storage. From there you should be able to select it from DubScript. If you meant you want to open it on your PC-- you should be able to save the attachment to disk and then open with any text editor (TextEdit on Mac, Notepad on Windows, GEdit on Linux, etc.)
You can also cut/paste to or from Google Docs, for example. Hopefully this answers your question-- if not, could you explain which app you want to open it from/with, and on what computer/phone?
Thanks!
R
Sending to email
Thru my email, I downloaded it.( I'm using android on a Galaxy 13). It says I don't have an ap that can open it. I'm able to open other d/loads that are text only. If I could "send" or " forward' it somewhere, would that help? I sure wish I wouldn't have done this. I was at 265 pages just so you know. I appreciate your help.
I'm not 100% sure what you…
Sorry-- I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "Thru my email, I downloaded it." -- that is, I'm not 100% clear what you used to send it through your email, and where you downloaded it to. But if I understand correctly, you sent the screenplay file to yourself via email (using the "Share.." button on DubScript on your phone? As opposed to say, copy and pasting it into an email, right?)
So now you have the screenplay file as an attachment in the email, but if you tap it on the email program (gmail or something else?) it is saying nothing can open it.
If this is correct, can you try the following steps? Make sure you first have the latest DubScript installed on the phone, then...
That's it-- the file should now be loaded up and ready to be viewed, printed, or edited.
If this doesn't work, there are a few other options:
1. Tap the attachment in the email program itself instead of saving it. On most recent versions of Android, DubScript should recognize the file type (provided it is a fountain file, of course) and then offer to open the file straight from the email program. It will ask you to choose a new save location for the file, since it can't save directly back to the email attachment.
If that doesn't work--
Try downloading the fountain screenplay from the mail app to the Downloads directory, and then use the "Files" app that comes with most versions of Android (or download a File Manager app from the Play Store), select the file, and try to open it from there. You will again (on most recent versions of Android) be asked to select DubScript to open the file-- as before since you are not directly openign the file in DubScript but rather the Files app, you will be asked to choose a new save location.
If THAT doesn't work, and hopefully by now it has, you can always use a computer (mac, Linux, windows) to get the file from the email-- you can then paste the screenplay text to something like Google Docs, then use the Google Docs on the phone to copy/paste it back into a blank DubScript editor and then output to PDF or whatever.
Phew!
Got one more idea-- In the "Write" screen, there is a menu item called "Recovery Backups"-- as you write and when you save, it creates local backups on the device you are writing on. This is yet another way you can get access to older versions of the script-- you can just save them to the device (or to a remote location).
(Please check out the "Help & Info" menu item as it tells you a little more about "Recovery Backups" and how they work.)
I'm really curious what that "usage limit" message was-- it's 100% not something that DubScript does. The only time I've heard of that message offhand is if you're running out of data usage, but unless you are saving to the cloud, you shouldn't be using any data just to save locally to your device.
Good luck, hopefully something here will be helpful, and please do report back!
R
I just had another thought--…