Hi all,
Since I initiated this topic, I would like to share my experience with the upgrade.
First off: I’m not saying this is the right way, I’m just sharing what I did and what I noticed, in case someone find it useful.
How I did upgrade DT3 → DT4
- closed Safari
- Devonthink 3: closed all databases ; Closed Devonthink 3
- restarted the MacOS
- zipped Devonthink 3.app → copied the zip to Desktop
- moved Devonthink 3.app and Devonthink 3.app.zip to from \Applications folder to the Bin (“Move to Bin”)
- downloaded Devonthink4 from “customer account” and installed it
- on Welcome Screen clicked “Install AddOns”
- Opened databases
- all seems ok, databases mounted Ok
What I see / find on first look:
- tested drag n drop of some email from mail.app into Inbox in Finder → works ok
- some Alfred (apple) scripts easy fixed with changing
tell process "DEVONthink 3"
to
tell process "DEVONthink"
- Alfred scripts using
tell application id "DNtp"
are working ok, no changes needed - all items in Devonthin Inbox(es) are still there from DT3
- smart rules / searches are there
- Preferences (like font for rtf files) ARE NOT preserved
- Label Names ARE NOT preserved
- for ex for Red Label I’ve changed the name to Burning in DT3, but now it’s not preserved
- however items in database which were labeled, are still labelled with same color as before (I think
)
- Not all scripts are there, for example in Export Folder
For the last bullet point I created another post: DT3 → DT4 upgrade: Scripts Folder differences - DEVONthink - DEVONtechnologies Community
What else I did on test Mac
(! > Pls note this is on a test Mac, and not production < !)
After installing DT4, opening, mounting databases, dropping some emails from mail.app I did the following:
- closed DT4
- zipped DEVONthink.app from /Applications folder
- removed the zip from /Applications folder
- restarted Mac
- returned back Devonthink3.app into /Applications folder
- started Devonthink3.app
- opened databases
I didn’t do too much messing around but it gave me some peace of mind that I can run DT3 and mount the databases.
Hope this helps.
Cheers