Devon is working without the application?

DEVONthink Tips
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Well I don’t mean to be silly but I have a strange situation.

The application icon in the application folder had the familiar white circle with a bar through it.
Any yet the databases are open and working.
I closed the application and still had the white circle in the applications folder.

I wondered if an update process had somehow moved the application and so I did a search for “Devon” and Kind=Application, searching “This Mac” - Nothing. Just in case I also tried “DEVON” and Kind=Application but still nothing.
Clearly the application must be present and functioning correctly since I could then reopen databases and everything resumed as normal, but there is still a white circle in the applications folder.

Has any one come across the behavior and hence does anyone know how to fix it.

Thanks

2

It could be that the icon cache is messed up. Have you rebooted your Mac?

3

Thanks for your response.

Yes, doesn’t make any difference.

4

Are you saying you cannot find the DEVONthink application but you can open databases?

Have you rebuilt the launch services database? (Google it – there are lots of sites explaining what to do – or use something like Onyx.)

5

Thx for your response.
Yes.
As originally noted if I do a search using the Finder and set the conditions as “Devon” and Kind=Application, then nothing is returned.
This doesn’t make any sense to me and this is why I was asking if anyone had run into this problem before.

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I suggest searching for “DEVONthink Pro.app” or “DEVONthink.app” (I don’t know what edition of DEVONthink you have). Don’t use the “Kind==Application” predicate – in Mavericks, and perhaps earlier, it causes Spotlight to do strange things. Using the “.app” extension is sufficient.

When an app is running, the icon should appear in the Dock, and right-clicking the app icon will give you Options > Show in Finder