While reorganizing my data bases DT crashed and now 3000 of my most important files are missing from the first/original data base and are not inside the second data base.
My life is in limbo - where is limbo? How can I find them?
While reorganizing my data bases DT crashed and now 3000 of my most important files are missing from the first/original data base and are not inside the second data base.
My life is in limbo - where is limbo? How can I find them?
Meanwhile I have restored my old/first/original DB from TimeMachine.
Now I have two largely identical DBs but with important differences.
How can I compare the two?
One possibility is to export a listing (see Scripts > Export > Listing…) for each database and to compare it. In addition, could you send the crash log (plus related console messages) to cgrunenberg - at - devon-technologies.com? Thanks in advance!
Another possibility might be to export the contents of both databases, then use a file comparison utility to compare the differences.
Just wanted to chime in and note that I experience this problem too. Especially when dragging files from the global inbox into another database.
how to compare i might figure out, but what to do with that information? is there a script? simply removing duplicates would be too crude.
how can i reach the optimum of correct data?
I have procrastinated this and am not sure I know what you mean or how I could do this.
Do you mean a crash log of DevonThink from inside DT or from the System?
And console messages: I am no specialist as far as console is concerned. How would I be able to find those details from an event many weeks ago?
Crash logs can be found in the folder ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter and console messages are displayed by the application /Applications/Utilities/Console.app.
CrashReporter and Cosole do not contain relevant information.
With regards to the other part of your answer:
Once I do have this listing, what can I do with it? Comparing many thousands of entries manually/visually would be unthinkable.
What can I do with those listings? Is there a script to compare them?
Simply removing duplicates would be too crude.
How can i reach the optimum of correct data?
No. But there are third-party tools (e.g. FileMerge of the developer tools) to compare files and highlight the differences.
Probably not automatic.
OK, I have started to work through this manually although I am not happy with it, I don’t see our conversation going anywhere.
This should serve as a warning to new users that importing a complete and huge (My)Documents folder into DT is not a good idea. It is better to selectively import step-by-step.
I like DT but in my case DT and/or the system had become unstable during import.