I apologize in advance if my communication or knowledge base on this matter is poor. I was in a rush to transfer and organize all my templates from my old job to my personal computer before losing access (I’m a stupid physician and foolishly waited til the last day on the job to transfer all the files). In doing so, I did not give the manual a full read through and I’m worried this is all self-inflicted now.
What I was doing was copy/pasting text into Devonthink in hopes of starting a database. Everything, I thought, was being saved as an RTF file. Once all my information was entered, I would drag the various tags to help organize and everything seemed great. I thought I created hundreds of separate files – different operative reports for different scenarios, all sorted and all saved. I believed it was all saved externally to my MacBook. When I searched in my Finder, all the files appeared, as RTF. It was lovely. I was amazed by how simple it all seemed. And relieved to know that it would not be impacted by me losing Microsoft Word / OneNote access.
I go on vacation, turn my brain off for 2 months, and now I’m getting ready for the new job and open everything up… There is nothing. At all. I open up Devonthink 3.0 and all the menu options are all shaded out. None of the prior tags exist anywhere. I search ~library and open up Inbox.dtBase2, and nothing. Emptiness. Because everything is all shaded out, and I am afraid that I may make things worse, I cannot even tell you how I entered the text into Devonthink to generate the RTF files and dragged the tags over. But I can tell you it was about 12 hours of copy/pasting/tagging and about many, many years of my lifes work… Sigh.
In reviewing this: Can't find (working) DT database - #29 by troejgaard I am worried that I may have just resorted to default save mode and not actually been saving my work to my actual hard drive? I swear on my life that everything was searchable on my Finder and I was able open the RTF files outside of Devonthink.
So… is it fair to say it is all gone?
Sorry again for the computer speak illiteracy, I know it makes it really hard to understand what I was doing before.