I recently had a repair done on my MacBook. I back up fairly regularly to an external SSD, and completed a back up in-store immediately prior to handing over the machine. The machine was running Sequoia, but required a logic board replacement, and came back with Tahoe. I was still able to restore from my Time Machine backup. Upon opening Devonthink, I received this message:
Initial Verification: [database name]
Found 5 major file errors. Please restore the last backup or rebuild the database and verify the contents afterwards!
Ignore
Rebuild…
Use Backup…
I chose “Use Backup…” and the database opened right up, without any further dialogs, which surprised me, since it had a “…” indicated further choices.
I then chose File > Verify & Repair Database, and that immediately returned a dialog that said:
Found 366234 inconsistencies, 0 invalid filenames, 4 missing and 116 orphaned files.
In the warning symbol at the top right of the window (triangle with “!”), there’s a warning about a pdf plugin I should uninstall, and then a list of 4 files that are missing. There is also a pencil with a line through it next to the database name in the left hand pane.
I’ve read about 30 of the posts on this issue, and I’m not totally clear on the next best thing to do in this particular case. Should I use Time Machine to go back to the Databases folder and copy back the most recent version of the database before the repair, and see if it’s in a better state? Or should I perform some additional actions on this database first? I would prefer not to lose the missing files and I’m generally concerned about the integrity of the database.
The Mac is a 16” 2023 with an M2 Max and 32 GB RAM running Tahoe 26.2
Devonthink is 3.9.16
Database stats:
