I have a ordinary Group like this:
and I cannot delete it:
I’d say intuitively this shouldn’t happen… Why does it happen and what can I do about it?
Thanks for any advice!
I have a ordinary Group like this:
and I cannot delete it:
I’d say intuitively this shouldn’t happen… Why does it happen and what can I do about it?
Thanks for any advice!
What happens if you use the contextual menu (right click on the group name)?
Stephen
How did you create this group? Are you able to create/delete other items in this database?
I don’t really know - I have a PDF item (indexed on the file system) with the same item name.
The group caught my attention because it wasn’t right to have a group with that name. Maybe the group name is an accident when I pasted with the wrong item selected from the clipboard… In any case it must have happened a while ago. I have no recent recollection of this.
The group did contain some un-related documents and I then was able to move these out to more appropriate locations.
Does verifying the database report any issues?
I just verified the database and got no issues.(*)
(*) Sometimes I do have issues (in various databases) - usually with files in indexed folders: Updates to item names I have done outside of DEVONthink are not reflected in DEVONthink – removing the folder from DEVONthink and re-adding it (via File → Index Files and…) gets things back into sync.
A screenshot of the complete window plus a screenshot of Preferences > General > Interface might be useful, thanks.
Thank you! Does rebuilding the database fix the issue?
Happy to do the Reindexing @cgrunenberg, but I have a few questions beforehand (see this new topic).
Yes! The group has quietly disappeared. Thanks for the advice.
(The whole thing feels a bit strange though. Any idea where this group had come from?)
Impossible to tell now without any information, maybe due to an issue/corruption in the past.
Fair enough. Probably something which went the wrong path of history…