I don’t use annotations much, but today I just started checking the Annotations Group in my database. I don’t think I’ve created any annotations in DT3. The group has a couple of annotations I’d made on files that are on my hard drive, but they are not within documents of my current database. But the group also contains 5 folders from my hard drive Music directory, they have about 26GB of files and none of them are annotations. They are the actual files that are in the folder on the Mac. It looks like the full content of each Mac folder is in the DT3 Annotations Group. I was going to try just trashing the folders in Annotations (not the actual files), but wanted to here from other users. Any idea how or why this happened? Should the scope of annotations be just the current database files or is it all the files on my hard drive?
MacMini M1 2020 Sequoia 15.6 DT3 3.9.14
The Annotations group can contain more than just annotation files.
The question i have is why you’ve imported your Music directory into the database in the first place?
I thought that the files in the Annotations group only got there by DT3 reporting the annotations in the files within the database. Thanks for clearing that up.
I can’t remember importing the Music directory folders, but I must have. I can imagine trying to index my music files, but that would have created a group, and even then, I can’t imagine why I would have included the multiple folders in the Music directory. At any rate. Now I can confidently delete those files from the Annotations Group. Thanks for the post.
You’re welcome!
Perhaps the result of an accidental drag and drop while you weren’t paying attention?
Maybe so.