I have been a DEVONthink user since 2009. At some point since then, I got another laptop and started to sync using DropBox. Then, I started using DTTG and started syncing that. Then, when I closed my DropBox account I switched to using iCloud (CloudKit) for syncing. I set it up using a secure key. By this point I no longer had the first laptop. After a while I discovered that DEVONthink on my laptop was not in sync with DTTG on my phone and I had added documents on both in the mean time, so from that point on I started just using DTTG. I stopped using it in 2020, but now I would like to try out DEVONthink 4 on another new laptop. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the secure key that I used and when I tried to add CloudKit as a sync location on the new laptop it behaved as if I was setting up a whole new location. Sync was still working on DTTG so I tried removing the secure key on there so that I could access it from my new laptop without a key. It told me that it would be best to “clean the location” so I agreed for it to do that. I am now still not able to access it from the new laptop and I can’t download any files to DTTG, so it seems as if “clean the location” meant “delete the database”, but I am still not sure. I still have the other database on my old laptop, so I can rescue at least some of my documents if this is the case. Is this my best option, or is the database that I was using with DTTG still actually available somewhere?
I’m pretty sure that I could get the secure key with a few tries, but I can’t see how I would know if I had guessed the right one.
Anyway, hopefully somebody can help me before I destroy all of my data.
Thanks!