How do I move my files into DEVONthink 3 from 2?

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I’ve purchased the 3.0 Devonthink Pro upgrade. Is there a way to migrate my files automatically?

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You can simply open the databases in DT3 (File, Open Database…)
For safety, you should back up your DT2 databases just in case. I copied mine to a new folder, and open them in DT3 from there.
Note that the Global Inbox isn’t automatically. migrated from DT2 into DT3 - it sits in your user library on the Mac in a DT2 folder and it’s left there so DT2 can see it, if you go back to DT2. DT3 creates its own global inbox in its own Library folder.

2 ways to get the Inbox over: (1) Go into your user Library and copy the Inbox.dtBase2 file from ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONThink Pro 2 to ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONThink 3 or (safer, to my mind), create a new database in DT2 called something like Inboxcopy), copy the global Inbox contents to it, close DT2 and open the new database in DT3.

DON"T have DT2 and 3 open at the same time

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small detail — question to @cgrunenberg --> is it only in the beta, that devonthink 3 databases have still a .dtbase2 ending? (I know that you did not do any database changes between DT 2 and 3, but would it not make sense either to remove the version number from the file type, or to use the correct version number?

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Thank you to both of you. 2 of 3 had no problem. Third one working on n

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.dtBase was used by version 1.x, .dtBase2 is just the second format of DEVONthink’s databases and extended by version 3.