Alert Devonthink to that a mounted volume is in fact mounted and correct the path

DEVONthink
#1

Using Devonthink 2.11 I have indexed a folder on a server. Works nicely and I can now search the files in all sorts of ways. However, when I select a file, I am informed that the volume is not mounted even though it is. Quitting and restarting Devonthink does not help. I think the explanation is that the path according to Devonthink is: /Volumes/groupdirs-1/… and this is wrong. It is /Volumes/groupdirs/…
groupdirs exist (and is mounted) groupdirs-1 does not exist.
What triggered Devonthink into adding the -1? and is there a way correcting it? Not file by file, please. There are 47000 of them.

Thanks,

Peter

#2

DEVONthink 2 doesn’t change paths on its own, therefore the most likely reason is that the volume’s path was indeed /Volumes/groupdir-1/ while indexing the files & folders (e.g. because there was already another volume with the same name mounted). The only workarounds would be to remove the indexed items from the database and to index them again or to use version 3 (a script could fix the paths).

#3

Could you tell more about this script? I had a situation where I needed to fix paths for indexed items (the external drive name changed) but did it the ol’ delete-and-replace method.

#4

Here’s a simple example replacing strings in paths, e.g. enter the old prefix ("/Volumes/groupdirs-1/") and the new one ("/Volumes/groupdirs/").

tell application id "DNtp"
	activate
	try
		set this_selection to the selection
		if this_selection is {} then error "Please select some items."
		
		repeat
			display dialog "Find:" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
			set searchString to the text returned of the result
			if searchString is not "" then exit repeat
		end repeat
		
		display dialog "Replace:" default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
		set replacementString to the text returned of the result
		
		if searchString is not equal to replacementString then
			show progress indicator "Updating Paths..."
			my updatePaths(this_selection, searchString, replacementString)
			hide progress indicator
		end if
	on error error_message number error_number
		hide progress indicator
		if the error_number is not -128 then
			try
				display alert "DEVONthink" message error_message as warning
			on error number error_number
				if error_number is -1708 then display dialog error_message buttons {"OK"} default button 1
			end try
		end if
	end try
end tell

on updatePaths(theseRecords, theSearch, theReplacement)
	local this_record, this_path
	tell application id "DNtp"
		repeat with this_record in theseRecords
			step progress indicator (name of this_record as string)
			set this_path to (path of this_record as string)
			if this_path is not "" then set the path of this_record to my replaceString(this_path, theSearch, theReplacement)
			my updatePaths(children of this_record, theSearch, theReplacement)
		end repeat
	end tell
end updatePaths

on replaceString(theString, theOriginalString, theNewString)
	set {od, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, theOriginalString}
	set theStringParts to text items of theString
	if (count of theStringParts) is greater than 1 then
		set theString to text item 1 of theStringParts as string
		repeat with eachPart in items 2 thru -1 of theStringParts
			set theString to theString & theNewString & eachPart as string
		end repeat
	end if
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to od
	return theString
end replaceString
Four ways to relocate index folder/disk but which one is suitable and under what situation?
#5

I’ll check that out, thanks!