Copies of stories are causing the Twine application to malfunction

[Loressadev]

Describe the bug.

I save my twine stories in C:\Users[me]\OneDrive\Documents\Twine\Stories

Onedrive restored a bunch of old files from my old computer, which automatically created copies of many stories (labeled samename - copy) with different creation dates in the same folder. Ever since that incident, Twine has been having issues.

Malfunctioning behaviors:

• Two instances of the twine application would open every time I tried to start Twine. I attempted to start twine both from the taskbar and from clicking the application itself within its install folder
• Switching to sorting by date would hide all the copies as well as some of my games without copies
• Switch to sorting by date would then make sorting by name nonfunctional
• Creating a new story would refresh the main story page, but not open the new story
• Upon opening the new story, the view would be very zoomed out (the basic blue grids were tiny) and created passage was invisible. Creating more passages would also lead to them being invisible. Closing and reopening the story would eventually find them
• View mode (the different squares) buttons were nonfunctional
• Attempting to change story format would lead to an infinitely looping loading icon and would not display story choices
• Twine was unable to be uninstalled - the uninstall application would run but twine would not be deleted

Steps to reproduce:

Steps:

1. Onedrive had been disconnected for a long time - upon logging back in, I was prompted to update new files
2. This created copies of a number of games in the stories folder
3. Starting twine then showed 2 versions of many games

Expected behavior:

Twine to function as normal.

Additional context on this problem.

I'm unsure if this is due to onedrive, or if this will happen to anywhere the twine\stories file is used. This is probably incredibly niche, but I have heard of others using onedrive like this to backup twine creation to the cloud.

### Deleting all the copies in the onedrive folder fixed this issue.

Twine version number

2.3.16

Does this problem occur with the web version of Twine or the desktop app?

Desktop app

What operating system does this problem occur on?

Windows

If this problem is occurring with the web version of Twine, what browser does it occur on?

None

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[Loressadev]

I just realized, through making this report, that my version of Twine is super out of date! Is there a way to update/get notified about updates through the application?