Automatic renaming of dtSparse to sparseimage and unintended consequences

[cgrunenberg]

@Blanc

This has unintended consequences, the least severe of which is that if DT terminates irregularly, it is necessary to rename the databases manually before they can be used by DT again.

Did you actually experience this? Because DEVONthink should automatically rename them again on startup if that’s the case.

if - as I did - you select your closed database (let’s call it database.dtSparse) for backup, then the database will only be backed up if it is closed.

Especially in case of encrypted databases I would highly recommend to back up only closed databases, otherwise the backup might be corrupted.