DevonThink Pro, v 1.2
Including earlier versions, I’ve been using the app for a year + and have accumulated 300+ stored documents, mostly single pages. The doucments are a mix of PDFs, e-mails, & web receipts. So, I’m thinking what a great app with no hint of the impending disaster. Today I go back and look for a recently saved docuement: it’s listed ok (along with the 300+), but selecting the document (single click) reveals it to be blank, as are the overwhelming majority of the other documents. I’ve had no hard drive crashes or known viral issues. So I select to Rebuild the Database and am told that there are several hundred errors; after the quick rebuild, all of my documents vanish, no longer being listed. Well, I’ve got 10 backups, so I’m not sweating yet. I select the oldest backup (August 16th) to restore, figuring maybe the corruption had not occurred that far back. The restoration went well and the 300+ documents are again listed. After examining a large number of documents, I find that about 3/4 are only minitures, or thumbnails, and are illegible when enlarged. Additionally, I have duplicate external hardrive backups that are done daily & weekly, but of course, these are simply replicas of the corrupted database.
Fortunately, I do have a copy of version 1.0 on my laptop and those files are ok through 8/10/06 - I hadn’t gotten around to updating the software on the laptop. I looked back and verified that version 1.2 was installed on my primary Mac (the one with the corrupted database) on the release date of 8/14/06. So, I guessing the database corruption is related to version 1.2. But, I’m open to other suggestions or input. Any one have a clue?
Thanks