How to update a record (keeping the same UUID)?

halloleo · February 6, 2019, 3:36am

How can I update a record keeping the same UUID?

Especially, is there a way to update a webarchive in DEVONthink?

The UUID should stay the same, beacuse other records link to this UUID and it is very painful to update all in-linkiing records.

BLUEFROG · February 6, 2019, 2:13pm

Updating a webarchive won’t change the UUID since it’s not replacing the file.

halloleo · February 9, 2019, 2:06pm

But how do I update a webarchive? Just by copying a new webarchive file in the filesystem location of the previous webarchive file?

BLUEFROG · February 9, 2019, 2:48pm

If you are looking at a webarchive in DEVONthink, you can refresh and update the file here…

halloleo · February 10, 2019, 12:17am

Thanks Jim. That’s cool!

BLUEFROG · February 10, 2019, 2:03am

You’re welcome.

banshee · June 6, 2019, 11:11pm

Can something similar be done for other file types? I’d like to be able to update PDF files when I am given new versions, but I’d like my markdown note links to keep working since many notes might reference the same document. (I am not concerned about retaining any sort of document markup.)

BLUEFROG · June 7, 2019, 4:46pm

No. PDFs (and other non-web formats) can’t be updated like this.

Technically, it may be possible, but it would certainly be inadvisable. PDFs are easy enough to break and there are already enough bad PDFs floating around the universe.