While trying out DT I created lots of tags for my documents in DT. After uninstalling following this guide DEVONtechnologies | How to Fully Uninstall DEVONthink it seems like DT still messes with my tags in iCloud.
I am not sure if I remember correctly what I did while using DT. Here is what I think I did. Some of the tags I’ve used while using DT were the default Red, Purple and Green tag. After uninstalling DT, I’ve coincidentally also deleted all the default color tags from Finder since I don’t need them.
I now observe the following behaviour:
Now, and only for these three colors, whenever I tag a file with a tag that has the red, purple or green property, the file gets assigned the tag labelled with the respective color too. Even when deleting e.g. the tag labelled Red, it gets reanimated and gets assigned to the mentioned file.
Furthermore, all the files I’ve tagged while using DT are constantly synced, as seen by the sync symbol (also, when hovering over the file the system sometimes tells me that the file is currently in use).
I conclude that there must be some DT configuration left over after the uninstall that messes with my tags though I suppose there might also be a possibility that only Finder is at fault.
I’ve attached a screenshot of the view in Finder. You can see the constantly active sync symbol on almost all the files, and one file with a tag that has a tag with the green property and additionally and without my involvement has been assigned the tag labelled Green.
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In the Finder, hold the Option key and choose Go > Library. Go into the Metadata directory and remove the com.devon-technologies.think3 subdirectory and reboot your machine.
Then see how the tags behave.
Thanks for the clearup with the icon. I assumed there is a constant sync also because when hovering over the files, I get the message “The operation can’t be completed because filename is in use”.
DT is uninstalled. Also, it is not in the login items or allowed to run in background so I suppose even if the uninstall was not clean it should not have permissions. I was thinking that maybe DT changed some system settings. I cannot replicate any of the behaviour described above with iOS so I suppose it must be a local setting or a MacOS bug.
You make good points and I don’t have a good explanation of what could be happening. If it is not a DT but a Finder issue, I find it strange that I’m seemingly the only person with that issue.
Now in the user library, metadata does not contain the com.devon-technologies.think3 subfolder.
I’ve deleted a bunch of other DT related folders in various subfolders of the user library and rebooted. It did not fix the issue.
I conclude that the problem is probably not related to DT. Thanks for help though. Maybe Finder did not like me deleting the default tags. It seems like they have some special behaviour.
