I have a database containing a lot of indexed Dropbox material. (I try to index one high-level folder with subfolders, rather than individual folders or files.) The database is synced between two computers with copies of DT4 (Server edition). The Dropbox account and folders are shared between the computers too.
A few days ago, on my office computer, I moved some files from one indexed group to another in Devonthink (thus moving them from one folder to another in Finder). Now, on my home computer, they are viewable in the new group (and they also are in the right folder in Dropbox). But there are ghost versions of them in the old group and no matter how many times I sync or update indexed files, they still show up in the old group, grayed out, with the āFile not yet availableā message. Other files in the same folder - ones which I did not move - appear normally.
Today I synced the office computer again, and resynced the home computer again, but the ghost files are still there.
Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity! The two computers share a dropbox account. The Devonthink databases are synced via Dropbox and the indexed files and folders are also stored in Dropbox. Does that clarify things?
And I should have anticipated @rmschne ās question - the first thing I did was to make sure all the relevant folders were made available offline.
Dropbox has another wrinkle to watch out for after you get the keep downloaded issue sorted out
There are two ways Dropbox can work with the Mac file system I think itās still in a protracted beta but if one of your Macās has DBox set to act as file provider (the beta version) and the other is on the older version, then the file path to the index folders will be different and DEVONthink sees them differently on each system.
I canāt remember what I did that worked but once I got both of my Macs on the newer file provider set up my indexed folders all work on both systems.