So I’ve downloaded the new DTTG. First things I notice:
a) Apparently I’ve to pay up even though I’m a registered user like since ages ago? (see below)
b) Is it just me or is it insanely slow? Like I’ve a DB with about 10k items in it, and just sorting, or even scrolling will hang, invariably, so that the app does not react anymore. Opening an email by tapping on it… thumbtwist - white screen morethumbtwist hitting back button nothinghappens until I kill the app - which I actually don’t need to because the app crashes itself.
sigh
I wasn’t using DTTG in the past because even synchronizing was working so badly that I essentially never was having anything reliably online.
Hey, why not make a DTTG “hosted” version? So we can have some server somewhere which does the heavy lifting. I’ve always an online connection, but that would allow me to synch my data in near real time, and DTTG would be just a frontend to it.
It would actually be sufficient if DTP made its metadata that lives with a database - I’m thinking avout those .dtMetaStore / .dtMeta files - human readable. I’d then create my own little web app in front of it and be done with it in a day or so.
@cgrunenberg how about that idea? It would allow people to have a choice. I can ofc parse the files content, and for an email archive like the one I’m having, it would probably be a very quick thing to do (I’ve in total only 600k emails in my databases, and just recently did an analysis on it that ran just 5 minutes; so with a delta update that would be instantaneous) - but I’d prefer having something that taps into the metadata that DTP holds.
Well, no. Just click the Registrieren button. Done.
It should not. Are there any background jobs visible in the Activity popover?
We could do that, theoretically, but that would mean security and safely hosting the data of quite a number of customers, some of which have many tens of GB of data. Hosting just the metadata wouldn’t really make sense for most people. And this would get us from application developers into the realm of scale hosters and server administrators, which is somewhat a deviation from what we do today.
And it wouldn’t help those people needing to have their data on their devices because they are not always in a connected space, from advocates in court rooms to nature scientists.
Well I did click the “registrieren” button, but it still shows that I’ll have updates only for like June 30th.
Wrt speed, no, I don’t see, at least, anything running at the same time. Is there some log I can pull? Maybe it’s just migrating some databases?
As to the self hosted, I didn’t mean to ask for anyone to host it for me. I would just like to have access to the metadata so that I can decide myself what to do with the files. Again, it’s about having options. Right now the metadata files are just, well, “data”. I mean I just spent 10 minutes cracking the nut open, and was able to do it, but that’s then dependent on the file format not changing.
Hmm. Replying to myself as I like talking to myself… By now I’m able to parse the DTP databases and fetch a bunch of metadata. What I wasn’t able to find is the folder (group) relationships so far. But then i found DT Server and that sounds quite close to what I want to do - yet it appears it wants to run on a mac, and so it defeats the idea unless I buy like a mac mini where I “host” my databases.
Thanks! Would you think that for an archive of say 150 GB / 500k files (mostly emails), a Mac Mini (with what kind of RAM) would be sufficient? How does the licensing work - it says “two seats” - does that mean, two users? I essentially want to make my email archive searchable remotely, as I’m just not being successful with DTTG. Thanks!
