I wanted to backup my database → Database if damaged → Verify and repair → Repair failed.
Before rebuilding my database, I was wondering if there were some way to identify the culprit files. My point is that they are probably 2 very minor files that I could simply delete or reconstitute from scratch.
thank you very much
Help > Documentation > Troubleshooting > Repairing a defective database > Missing Files…
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Solved the problem. Thanks again !
I have a peripheral question if it is not asking too much.
I often find myself in a situation similar to the current one. I have a problem, in this case repairing a database.
The answer ends up being a composite of 3 files
- a capture (HTML or webarchive) of your answer
- excerpts from the section of the user manual you pointed out to me, let say for discussion sake in PDF format
- my notes of what exactly I did to solve the problem (RTFD)
(I could use other formats in this case, but in many other non computing cases, I could not)
So I basically end up with 3 files in different formats. Data → convert format → merge is not a solution because too much info (visual or content) is lost in the conversion process.
The issue is how to bundle those 3 files in different formats into one “entity” (ideally a file). There is no way I am going to create a group each time. I will end up with thousands of groups. Same for tags: I would end up with many thousands of tags.
Could you suggest an approach to this problem ?
thanks again !
There is no singular format for this.
Do bear in mind, RTFD is not editable in DEVONthink To Go.
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Great. I will read about how to attach a PDF to a RTFD, hoping that the whole PDF is scrollable, as opposed to only one page being displayed.
If I understand correctly, by saving a web page as PDF, I forfeit the ability to refresh. In this case, had I saved as PDF before my follow question, I would have to save again (vs refresh).
thanks very much for your time and expertise
The PDF will be scrollable…
However, this is also not ideal for long PDFs.
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great. I just figured out how to do it. thanks !!