How to prevent Devonthink from re-starting itself

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Devonthink keeps starting itself … i do not want this.

How do i prevent Devonthink from doing this?

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Probably in the login items list? Check in Settings → General → login items and delete if there and not wanted.

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thanks @rmschne

but Devonthink even keeps re-starting while the Mac is running … so it’s not merely a matter of starting throughout the booting process of the Mac. In other words: After closing Devonthink it re-starts itself within 2-3 minutes again and again.

Any ideas?

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DEVONthink doesn’t and can’t launch itself, the most likely culprit are therefore scripts. E.g. did you use any of DEVONthink’s folder actions in the Finder?

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no. not that I am aware of @cgrunenberg

where could I double check this?

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You attach folder actions to folders in the Finder. It’s a manual do you’d know if you did it.

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exactly @BLUEFROG

and since I know I did not do it … where to look next?

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If something writes to the Inbox virtual folder, DT will start. Do you have anything appearing in the Inbox when DT restarts?

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Only saving files to the inbox folder (it’s a real folder) doesn’t launch DEVONthink actually, the files are imported the next time DEVONthink will be launched.

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My bad, you’re correct and that’s what I get for trusting memory. DT is almost always running here, so of course it will be running after I add a document to the Inbox.

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Do you have Hazel running with any rules pertaining to DEVONthink?

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The browser bookmarklet that adds files to DT will launch DT if it is used. Could that be it?

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