Not exporting DEVONtech_storage files

DEVONthink Automation
1

I’d like to store a version of my database in my Dropbox folder (the getdropbox.com type of Dropbox, that is). That way, I would have rudimentary read-only access to it via the web in a pinch.

The “Files/Folders” option in the Export menu does more or less what I want, but I’d rather have it be a bit more automated. So, I modified the Daily Backup script to create this:

set dropbox_path to "~/Dropbox/Devonthink/"
do shell script "rm -rf " & dropbox_path
tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
	activate
	try
		set this_database to current database
		set these_records to the records of this_database
		set export_path to dropbox_path
		
		repeat with this_record in these_records
			export record this_record to export_path
		end repeat
	on error error_message number error_number
		if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
	end try
end tell

That works fine. In addition to all of the records that I want, however, it also copies the DEVONtech_storage files to the Dropbox. Is there a way I can omit those files from being exported?

2

I was just fiddling with my own export situation where I didn’t want the DEVONtech_storage, too, and while I didn’t find it-- for your situation a simple scratch area before moving it into your dropbox may be enough?


set dropbox_path to "~/Dropbox/Devonthink/"
set scratch_path to "~/.scratch"
do shell script "rm -rf " & dropbox_path
tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
   activate
   try
      set this_database to current database
      set these_records to the records of this_database
      set export_path to dropbox_path
      
      repeat with this_record in these_records
         set exported_file to export record this_record to scratch_path
         tell application "Finder"
             move file exported_file to POSIX file dropbox_path as alias
         end tell 
     end repeat
   on error error_message number error_number
      if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
   end try
end tell

The _storage file will be left behind in the scratch directory (which you can clear out at the end, if you’d like)

3

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, that didn’t seem to work. I ended up having the script just go and delete all the files afterwords, which gets the job done. Here’s the code, if anyone’s interested:

set dropbox_path to "~/Dropbox/Devonthink/"
do shell script "rm -rf " & dropbox_path
tell application "DEVONthink Pro"
	activate
	try
		set this_database to current database
		set these_records to the records of this_database
		set export_path to dropbox_path
		
		repeat with this_record in these_records
			export record this_record to export_path
		end repeat
	on error error_message number error_number
		if the error_number is not -128 then display alert "DEVONthink Pro" message error_message as warning
	end try
end tell
do shell script "find ~/Dropbox/Devonthink/ -name DEVONtech_storage -delete"