Crash in DEVONthink Automation with Nested AI Rules

DEVONthink Automation
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I found a bug in DEVONthink’s automation: If a rule contains an AI operation and it’s used by another rule that also has an AI operation, it can’t batch process files. After handling the first file, the automation process crashes. Here’s my test rules:

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Three md files with random texts are used in test. Only the first one is renamed.

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Does it crash or freeze? In case of a crash please choose Help > Report Bug while pressing the Option modifier key and send the result to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com - thanks!

P.S: Using only one rule would be more efficient as the number of requests can be reduced, at least in the example.

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  • My earlier description may have been misleading. Here, “crash” means the batch process stopped midway—only one document was processed before it halted, but other functions were not affected.
  • I will report bug later
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I was able to reproduce the issue, the next release will fix this.