Moving files out of DT - an easy way?

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Welcome @aivery

  • Where are you exporting to?
  • How are you verifying the metadata?

I am seeing no issue with changing creation dates or loss of tags when exporting to the desktop (in Sonoma at the moment).

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My experience is that structure and tags are maintained
I do a weekly full export as part of my backups

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is there a reason why cmd+drag does allow to move (not just copy) from finder to dtp but not viceversa?

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After moving files accidentally out of the database, it’s not possible to undo this operation. Even moving the file in again wouldn’t restore e.g. broken item links or lost metadata.

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technically you could keep a (hidden) copy of the file in the trash to undo the operation?! maybe also an additional warning message might be useful for the first time: “this action is irreversible. are you sure you want to move this file from DTP to the finder?”

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But what’s the actual use case for doing this?

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For example on the iphone I collect all files/bookmarks etc in DTTG. Some of them I move to local finder directories on DTP later on. Why should I be able to move files into DTP but not out of DTP? It’s not a big issue, currently I move them out b drag and drop and then delete them in DTP. But cmd+drag an drop in both directions for moving might be a more consistent behavior. But as said, if the developers team has good reasons not to implement this, I can accept and understand this.

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@DTLow @BLUEFROG
You both are right. I accidently tested with another file.

And the other questions was solved with the DEVONthink Help. Thanks! :slight_smile:

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Thanks for the follow-up and glad to help :slight_smile:

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