What is the difference (= Pros and Cons) between saving a DevonThink DB directly in a Dropbox folder and accessing it with several devices from there or saving it locally on each device and syncing it.
Syncing from a Dropbox folder is not possible, isn’t it?
There’s no advantage of storing a database in a Dropbox folder, it’s not even possible anymore to create databases in cloud folders. Such a “synchronization” is slow, error-prone and doesn’t support concurrent access or iOS. Sooner or later you’ll lose data or the complete database in the worst case.
Thanks for the advice.
In fact I DO store currently all DB files in a Dropbox folder. Till now without any problems.
But I will follow your advice and change.
I jump on the conversation as I am/was in the same boat. I used to have all my databases in my DB folder and access them directly from my different macs. I had stopped using DTG as version 1 didn’t do the job. Now with Version 2, I have given it another go and the new sync method obliged me to bring first my database to a local disk before rey-loading the whole lot to the DB sync directory.
Am I correct in assuming Devonthink now occupies twice the previous space on my drive: The original database stored locally and the synced database in my DB automatically replicated in my DB folder on my disk ?
You should always have a local copy of your database on each device. (And this is how Sync is built, to ensure this is the case.)
You should never put your databases in a Dropbox (or other cloud-synced) folder or you could irreparably damage them. Never. If you have, you must relocate them immediately. The safest location is somewhere in ~/Documents.
You should never see anything for DEVONthink in the local Dropbox/Apps folder.
In the Dropbox application’s Preferences > Account > Selective Sync, make sure you uncheck the Apps/DEVONthink Packet Sync.
Sync is not copying your database. It is transmitting DEVONthink-specific, raw data to be used by devices running DEVONthink To Go 2.
I’ll follow your advice to the letter. I must admit that I have had my databases in my DB folder for about ten years now – and never lost anything.
I also sync between Macs. I’m not sure how to proceed here: copy the databases on my local HD on computer B and then initiate a sync with the Sync repository that is in DB or configure the sync and then use the Import database command ?
And last, Is the process able to follow if I move the local databases somewhere else (within the ~/documents folder) ?
No to be negative, rude or mean, but here we go again. After 7 yrs of using DTO, you still can’t use DB to do syncing. I going back to one computer that holds my DB database and then use SuperDuper to make sure it gets backed up one bootable drive.