Is the URL in the Generic Info inspector only a DEVONthink value?

[cgrunenberg]

@lpuerto

is this still the case? I mean if I ask for an update of the indexed and I’ve changed or updated the com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms value is going to be updated?

Do you update the URL in DEVONthink or update the extended attribute?

[lpuerto]

I updated the extenden attribute using zowie… in the end I delete and add the indexed files, but I want to know if the updated indexed work or not for the next time.

[cgrunenberg]

@lpuerto

I updated the extenden attribute using zowie…

Why don’t you update the URL using DEVONthink? This updates also the extended attribute of indexed items. Currently this attribute is only used when indexing/importing items.

[lpuerto]

Because zowie do this automatically with the Zotero URI, which is what we want here. I can do it manually of course, but If I do every 3 months or so, perhaps it’s a bunch of new papers on zotero that I also want to index with DT.

It woud be great if you can also update that atribute when you update the index.

I also know that I can put the URI on the comment section, but I think that is a little bit suboptimal.

[mhucka]

FWIW, I haven’t checked if DEVONthink’s behavior has changed in this area. (Based on @cgrunenberg’s reply above, it sounds like it hasn’t.) I’m still setting the URL from the Finder comments with a DEVONthink rule. Now looking at it, I see that the wiki page I previously wrote about using Zowie with DEVONthink is slightly out of date: instead of having a separate rule to set the URL field as described on that wiki page, I added it as part of the rule that runs Zowie, more or less like this:

Thank you for your kind words about Zowie.