How to prevent Devonthink from automatically opening a database every time upon startup

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Dear Devonthink team, I find I have to manually close a particular database everytime I start Devonthink. Can you advise how to prevent this please ie leave a database unopened rather than have it automatically and persistently invoked at each Devonthink execution? I’ve tried to disable sync activity that might be a causal factor, through the Bonjour settings (Bonjour is now set to manual). I saw “reminders” can also play a role in this. How are reminders best located and disabled across a database en masse please? Thanks in advance.

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Thanks. I’ll try to look into whether smart rules, reminders, folder actions or scripts are involved.

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You can look for items with reminders by search for things with a due date.

How are you quitting DEVONthink?

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I know you say it is happening at start up but maybe you are doing something else? I do things automatically. In fact I press into a workspace on opening and that caused me a similar issue.

If you use workspaces DEVONthink 3 will open ones you had open when you made the workspace I think. I can’t quite remember, BLUEFROG will confirm or not. I had the same problem as you and that is what I think was causing it I found. Just close the data bases and update the workspace I think that was what I did.

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Hi Bluefrog, apologies but can you specify please exactly how one searches for items with reminders through use of the due date setting?

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There is a built in smartrule for reminders just go to it and click on it, it should show all items with reminders . Otherwise I think you can just search ‘item contains reminder’ and I suppose then add to the search ‘date due’. I am not quite sure what you are asking though?

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Actually you can use item:reminded.

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Thanks Bluefrog. A reminder of item:reminded was just what I needed. I’ve now located and removed 3 items with reminders so hopefully that will solve the automatic database opening problem. Thanks to everyone for their help!

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You’re welcome :slight_smile:

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The suggested solution worked. The database is no longer inadvertently opened. Thanks very much.

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Glad to hear it and you’re welcome :slight_smile: