PDFs do not import.

thurfjell · February 6, 2007, 1:49pm

I am using Dt Personal on a MBP 2.16/1GB RAM/40GBs of free disk space. Now PDFs won’t import. They just show up in the log as “Failed”.

Any ideas?

cgrunenberg · February 6, 2007, 2:00pm

You’ve probably reached the limitation of the Personal edition, see http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/comparison.html

thurfjell · February 6, 2007, 2:07pm

I wish. I just started a new database.

cgrunenberg · February 6, 2007, 2:11pm

Another possibility is that you’re using a buggy haxie like ShapeShifter breaking the communication between DT and a background task. Unfortunately Unsanity doesn’t respond.

thurfjell · February 6, 2007, 2:15pm

That is a possibility, indeed. Will uninstall SS. Thanks.

thurfjell · February 6, 2007, 2:30pm

Ah… DT Bliss. Many thanks!

jose_v · February 7, 2007, 12:18am

Is it the application in general or just that some themes happen to interfere with DT? Please oh please tell me that I don’t have to leave my skinned goodness.

milhouse · February 7, 2007, 3:47am

I removed Unsanities haxies to eliminate a variety of “issues”, despite their insistence that they don’t cause problems.

Try UNO, if you want a nice, unified theme for OS X. It doesn’t use a haxie.

I haven’t had issues since using it.

jose_v · February 10, 2007, 5:18pm

This is probably just wishful thinking but will disabling APE/shapeshifter for dtp do the trick or is the problem with that haxie more wide-spread than that?

Bill_DeVille · February 10, 2007, 8:14pm

Sorry, Jose, I’m afraid that’s wishful thinking.

I know that it can be fun to play with the appearance of the operating system. Unfortunately, that seems to have unintended consequences, so I keep my OS in stock condition.

Don’t suppose that only DT Pro is affected by that haxie. I looked at many sources a couple of months or so ago and found a number of instances in which other apps were affected.

Sometimes fun and work just aren’t compatible.