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I have juste upgraded to DTTG 3.1.1
The database is synced with Webdav on my synology.
Searching in file names is working correctly, but every full text search gives 0 results.
Any ideas ?
On the Mac, the databases are working well with DT3 Pro.

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Are you searching for single words or sentences?

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Both. I check a word that is inside a pdf, but no results come out, as if it isn’t indexing the content. The files are added by indexed search on the database of the Mac. I always sync the pdf files to DTTG.

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A screen capture of the search in DEVONthink and DEVONthink To Go could be helpful.

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Ok, I just asked because DTTG only searches alphanumeric characters (unless that changed), so any punctuation in searches, like in quotes or longer sentences, would yield zero results.

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This is true of DEVONthink as well, though it indexes a handful of characters. See the note in the Help > Documentation > Windows > Main Window > Search Pane…

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I see. I think the issue though was that DTTG won’t list any results if you don’t manually remove non-alphanumerical characters.

So, DT will find the following sentence in global search, but DTTG will not:

Over a decade ago, SIRT1 was further identified as a NAD±dependent deacetylase that mediates mammalian metabolic responses to nutrient availability (Imai et al., 2000).

In DTTG, it would only find results, if the following search (or the wildcard *) was used:

Over a decade ago SIRT1 was further identified as a NAD dependent deacetylase that mediates mammalian metabolic responses to nutrient availability Imai et al 2000

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And I was merely clarifying that DEVONthink does index a handful of non-alphanumerical characters.

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Noted. Just wanted to mention the different behaviors again, as this might have been relevant for OP.
(I assume you guys are aware of this DTTG behavior for possible further improvement.)

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution - Maggie Tallerman, Kathleen R. Gibson
The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution - Maggie Tallerman, Kathleen R. Gibson2732×2048 361 KB

I uploaded a screen capture of a pdf, the word is on the right, but it doesn’t find it hitting enter. DTTG doesn’t even seem to search any way. Is there a delay in creating the index ?

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  • Did you just import this database?
  • If so, is it large?
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I did it 3 days ago. It is about 4 GB, 2000 pdf files

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I solved the problem with a complet uninstall of the application. With the automatic update to the latest version something must have happened to the indexes.