The only forum question I’ve found is this one, but there was no answer.
I had my Devonthink on my mac syncing with my iPad via Bonjour. Then I got a new laptop and copied my databases to that computer and have been working on the laptop for some time. When I went back to the ipad I realized that my old sync laptop was in the location settings, but I couldn’t get the new one to show up. I wound up deleting that connection to the old computer (hope that wasn’t a mistake), in the hopes of the app connecting to the new one. I enabled incoming connections on the new laptop, but it still doesn’t show up on the ipad. When I try the reverse, I get an error message on the ipad that “warning: purging older contents was disabled as a server needs data to serve…” the only option is ok. How do I get set back up to update the ipad to match the computer? thanks!
Are you running Sequoia?
hi. yes, 15.4 (24E248)
You need to go into macOS’ System Settings > Privacy & Security > Local Network and give DEVONthink access.
Maybe also make sure that the Bonjour Options is set to Incoming Connections: Available. If I remember correctly that was my problem when I had similar problems.
took a restart but that worked, also @bjornivarsson: restarting turned incoming from none to available. thanks to both.
actually one more question. on my computer I had emptied the contents of one database and moved them to an encrypted database. But since that old database was on the iPad it now repopulated the emptied one on the laptop. Whats the best way to delete a database so that it no longer shows up in the list of databases on the ipad? When I deleted the database on the laptop, it was still showing on the ipad in the new location. I want it deleted from both. thx!
Whats the best way to delete a database so that it no longer shows up in the list of databases on the ipad? When I deleted the database on the laptop, it was still showing on the ipad in the new location. I want it deleted from both. thx!
This has been discussed many times…
Every device is independent. A database on your Mac is not the sync data in a sync location and is not the database on your mobile device. So you can delete a database on your iPhone and it has no effect on the sync location or your Mac, nor should it.
You need to disable syncing the database on each device syncing it. Then clean the database from the sync location, e.g., Control-click the database in the sync location in DEVONthink, and choose Clean Database.