Moving from old computer to new ...

DEVONthink Tips
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Having just done this, I would recommend following these steps:

  1. follow the steps listed by Jim, here
  2. in addition, following the same basic method, you may want to copy any scripts you have written - you’ll find them in /Library/Application Scripts/com.devon-technologies.think3
  3. in the DT menu on you old device select License und remove your license
  4. on the new device go to /Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3 and delete the Abbyy folder (or don’t copy it across in the first place)
  5. copy ~/Library/Preferences/com.devon-technologies.think3 from the old Mac to the new one.
  6. on the new device in the Menu select Install Add-Ons, and do exactly that - including OCR (if you leave out 4. and 6. then on Catalina at least system execution protection (is that what it is called) will call you out on the DTOCRHelper; at least that is what happened to me)
  7. Register DT on the new device
  8. Sit back, enjoy your new device
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