The file path in Database properties lists: (my username) → library → application support → Devonthink 3 → (database name)
Does that answer your question? Not sure if I set up the database incorrectly?
That’s most likely the global inbox. Do you have any additional databases created on your own?
In the Finder, do a Spotlight search for kind:database name:dtbase2.
What do you find?
I see: [my username] → Databases → [Database name]
Did you double-click the available .dtBase2 files to open them in DEVONthink?
How did you close DEVONthink (or this database) the last time?
I exited out of it. And just to be sure, I did right click and ‘quit’.
I wonder if it might have something to do with how I set up my databases? I just remember in the beginning when I first got devonthink, I didn’t understand what databases were, and thought that they were “groups”. Im not sure now, but maybe I created multiple databases somehow that were duplicates?
Press Continue. DEVONthink will do a verification of the database and report any errors. What do you see?
The wording seems to indicate that. You could try to close DT now (using the menu or Cmd-Q) and see what happens when you open it again.
I’m not sure that I understand what you mean. A database can’t be a duplicate of another one. Or did you perhaps create aliases to your databases in Finder?
Hold the Option key and choose Help > Report bug to start a support ticket.
Thanks.
ok, I don’t see the message anymore, and the database automatically shows up when I open devonthink! (Compared to before, where I had to open it and then I get the message). Thanks!
Glad to hear it. 
Open a support ticket if this recurs.
Thanks!
Now I’m confused. It doesn’t seem like opening a database automatically when opening DT should be the preferred workflow. Some of us switch between databases enough that we want to determine which database to start with when we open DT, just as you generally open a word processing document after you start he program. To start always with the last document you edited in not usually what you want.
Before you quit DEVONthink
- close all database that you don’t want to be opened
- open all databases that you want to be opened
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That’s not really a solution to the issue. In @Archimedes situation and in many other people’s, you don’t know what’s going to be the next thing that will require opening DT so you can’t prepare for something you don’t know when you’re shutting down.
I personally have 6 databases open all the time so I don’t need this BUT I use some software where it absolutely has to, has to, HAS TO, ask me which project(i.e. database) I want to open up after the software is up and running.
I could see there being a toggle/setting/preference for “remember last open databases on start - yes/no” or something more clearly worded than that.
What’s the problem with subtly opening the database that absolutely has to be opened? It’s a single click.
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Yes, I know. I’m using a script to open/close databases, but was never motivated to post it.
@Archimedes with Script: Open or close databases you could close and open databases in one go.
Why not…
- Use File > Close Database > Close All before quitting and just open databases as need on launch?
- Or you can also use a workspace via Go > Workspace to open (a) certain database(s).
- Or you can put desired databases in the Favorites of DEVONthink’s Navigate sidebar.
- Or you could use a database’s item link and open it via other means, like a StreamDeck, BetterTouchTool, etc.
- etc
- etc.