Again trouble finding documents in DTTG

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Again and again, the search in DTTG feels less reliable to me than searching in DT3. Sometimes it’s due to syncing issues, but sometimes not. Here an example:

The document below I searched in DTTG via the search term “OpenAudible” – and didn’t find anything. To be sure I double-checked in DT3 – and found it. Now I knew the path and could assert that the document was synced to DTTG, because I could open it - but the search for it still failed.

Quite frustrating. DT3 seems always more like the ground truth than DTTG!

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# Audible Conversion Tools - Resources

## Good conversion tool

* [OpenAudible][openaudibleWebsite] ([source code][openaudibleGit]): open-source cross-platform audible audiobook manager -- This one looks good

More options -- Adapted from [rmcrackan/AudiobookHub/README.md](https://github.com/rmcrackan/AudiobookHub/blob/master/README.md):

## Audible API wrappers

* Python: audible API wrapper ([PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/audible/) / [GitHub](https://github.com/mkb79/Audible))
* Node: audible-api ([npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/audible-api))
* Crystal: omarroth/audible.cr ([GitHub](https://github.com/omarroth/audible.cr))

## DRM Removal

Behind the scenes, most if not all resources below use these for their heavy lifting (although they aren't the easiest to use directly)

* [audible-activator][audibleActivator]: Retrieves your activation data (activation_bytes) from Audible servers
* [FFmpeg][ffmpeg]: A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Includes the ability to use your activation data to strip DRM from .aax files


## Other tools

* [inAudible][inaudible]: remove Audible DRM, edit files, and convert files. -- *Only* quite old Installers available.
* [AAX Audio Converter][aaxaudioconverter]: Convert Audible aax files to mp3 and m4a
* [Libation][libation]: audible audiobook manager. Download, decrypt, organize, search, and tag. Open-source. -- Windows only
* [OSAC][osac]: Open Source Audible Converter. Convert audible's proprietary AAX audio files to MP3, AAC/M4B, or FLAC
* [AAXtoMP3][aaxtomp3]: Convert Audible's .aax filetype to MP3, FLAC, M4A, or OPUS

  [audibleActivator]: https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator
  [ffmpeg]: https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html#Audible-AAX

  [inaudible]: https://github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible
  [aaxaudioconverter]: https://github.com/audiamus/AaxAudioConverter
  [libation]: https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation
  [openaudibleWebsite]: https://openaudible.org/
  [openaudibleGit]: https://github.com/openaudible/openaudible
  [osac]: https://github.com/adrifcastr/OSAC
  [aaxtomp3]: https://github.com/KrumpetPirate/AAXtoMP3
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Did you press Return/Enter after entering the search term to perform a full text search?

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Yes I did. Then I see the following:

DTTG OpenAudible search
DTTG OpenAudible search750×1640 38.9 KB

PS: I have just tried it with the correct casing “OpenAudible” - still no results in DTTG.

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Thanks, we’ll investigate this.

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When cleaning up the Markdown code, DEVONthink To Go removes the brackets, but without separating the words correctly. So for the search, [OpenAudible][openaudibleWebsite] becomes openaudibleopenaudiblewebsite. We’ll fix this for the next maintenance release. In the meantime, you can search for openaudible* (in this case, as it’s the beginning of the indexed word monster).

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Thanks for investigating so quickly. The explanation makes sense. - And I tried the work around with the asterisk: It works! :slight_smile:

When search doesn’t work properly, trust in the tool decreases… So it is good to keep the workaround in mind. And I’m looking forward to the fix.