Hello,
first post - I’ve been trying out DevonThink Pro Office since christmas, and thanks to the generous testing phase, I am starting to like it more and more .
However, I’ve got issues with using it for storing information bits from the web (which is my main reason for using DevonThink).
When I save information from Safari - using the Clip to DevonThink icon - I prefer to save the page as a webarchive. I was hoping that saving a webarchive would be equivalent to using the “Save as… webarchive” function from Safari. However, whenever I use Clip To, the downloading takes some 10 to 20 seconds (even if the page is already open in the browser) - so it seems that the page is not simply saved?
Further, when I open a page that I stored as webarchive from inside DevonThink, opening it takes a while, and a progress indicator is being displayed behind the URL text. This looks to me as though there is an internet access required to open the webarchive and reduces my trust in having a local copy of the page.
As I’ve been able to view recently stored webarchives with internet connection switched off, some web content must have been saved in DT’s database or cached by the web-page viewer. But today, I have found a couple of older webarchives in my DT database that are not being displayed correctly anymore (text is missing, images are missing, new advertisements are being displayed, etc.). This makes me suspect that maybe they never were downloaded fully and were only displayed properly only due to cacheing.
So my questions are:
- How can I go certain that DT downloads all information to the local database when I clip to DT (as Safari would if I saved as a Webarchive)?
- How can I validate that information has in fact been downloaded and will be available some months from now? (e.g. by disallowing off all further internet access when displaying elements of the DT database and by disallowing active content).
Thanks and Greetings