Is it safe to use DevonThink with OneDrive?

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For now, I just want to create a database, store that database on the OneDrive folder on my Mac, and use it on one machine. For now, I will not sync that database to iCloud or any other cloud service. Will that be a problem?

Nothing has changed in cloud in this regard. You should never put DEVONthink databases in any cloud-synced location or you could irreparably damage them. To this end, DEVONthink disallows creating, opening, or syncing a database in such a location and issues a warning about it.

In the future, I may want to index folders on OneDrive.

If maintaining tags on the documents isn’t important, then yes, it’s feasible. See…

Tags disappeared when selecting a file indexed from OneDrive

Update This is a OneDrive issue, not a DEVONtech one. OneDrive does not support tags on non-image files so when it syncs, it removes Finder tags from non-image files. This is clearly visible behavior in the Finder after making a change to a file in OneDrive on a PC. … still need to double-check the Mac behavior.\ And as expected… Finder tags are not synced nor preserved by OneDrive, even between Macs. On a side note: Tagging files in the Finder also does not provoke a OneDrive sync.

I suspect if I decide to sync between machines, I’d be better off doing Bonjour syncing than using OneDrive.

You couldn’t sync to DEVONthink To Go via OneDrive in any situation.