Devonthink and scansnap - how to disable dtpo from interacting?

DEVONthink
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Hi folks,
I’m trying to debug my scan workflow. Please bear with me…

  • Scansnap iX500
  • Devonthink v2

Years ago I set up a quite elaborate workflow with our scansnap for scanned documents to be sorted and moved into various folders and devonthink.

It did not really work a full 100% the way intended, and being on the road most of the time this whole workflow got forgotten.
That is until recently, when I started a search for “lost scanned documents”…

Now what I had completely forgotten is that I had setup Hazel rules to work with documents…

So today, I would like to modify my workflow as follows:

  • I want to have a /path/folder that will contain each and every scan
  • scans should preferably be named YYYY-MM-DD_HH-MM-SS (so that documents will be sorted the way they were scanned)

In a 2nd stadium, I’d want a scanned document to be duplicated to some other location.
Only on the second location interaction will be set up using Devonthink / Hazel.

  1. In order to try to achieve the newly desired workflow, I have disabled Hazel entirely

  2. Nevertheless with each scan I make, Devonthink will be started and I will be presented with the group selection pane where I’m asked to select where to put the scan.
    =>> How do I entirely disable Devonthink v2’s interaction with scanned documents?

  3. How to set the scansnap manager so that it does not interfere either? No pop-up window etc.

Thanks for helping out!

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Don’t set the Open with to DEVONthink in the ScanSnap profile you’re using.

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Is there an option to set this at the profile level? In other words, where / how can I edit a profile?

scansnap - select application you would like to use - None (Scan to File)
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FYI I’m on Scansnap manager version 6.3 L70 on that machine.

4

Your screen capture looks correct as Application is set to None (Scan to File).

What location are you saving to in the Save tab?

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I’ve specifically set this to a local folder and not a mounted folder.

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That’s why I was glad to find out it was Hazel playing tricks on me, but Hazel’s disabled entirely.

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Do you have a folder action attached to the folder you’re moving files to?

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Thanks Jim!, that was finally it…
So goddamn powerfull, but also so goddamn easy to forget about at all!!

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You’re welcome :slight_smile: