New Dropbox and Indexed Files

Dropbox is updating how they work with MacOs. See here. They are moving where the actual files are stored to “~/Library/CloudStorage.

I have an Indexed database for a Dropbox folder with over 10,000 files in it. If Dropbox moves the actual location to somewhere else, should I re-index there?

If Dropbox moves the actual location to somewhere else, should I re-index there?

It’s not a question of “if” it’s moved, it will be if you are using the latest version of Dropbox being discussed in your linked page.

And no, you don’t need to reindex. You can update the location of the indexed parent group in the Path control of the Generic Info inspector.

I have an Indexed database for a Dropbox folder with over 10,000 files in it.

Do actually need all 10,000 files in DEVONthink? Just asking.

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Well, not necessarily. However, I will often need to find a specific file from 6 years ago that I only vaguely remember a few things about. And I find your search to be much better than Spotlight through the finder.