I have the following issue: There is a main database and an Archive database. Goal is to copy files or groups of files physically (!) to the new database. That somehow does not work. If I drag and drop, the files itself are not moved (understandable). If I use the copy function, no reaction from DT. It just ignores my request. Is there a way to move these files for me?
Maybe the problem is, that one of the databases is a sparseimage (so I can copy just one file to back up) and the other one is a regular DB in the filesystem.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Did you check Window > Log for any error messages?
DOH! This always should be first thing to check. Sorry. Log says: Not enough space on Image. So I needed to make the image bigger. As you wrote 2020:
Just change the extension to .sparseimage, increase the size using disk utility, then change the extension back to .dtSparse.
So that helped.
Still I have no way of really MOVING the Files from one DB to another. They now show up in the new Database but the Filepath of the files is still within the old database. How can I accomplish really moving files to the other DB, so the original DB gets smaller…
So there is only one File to backup to my NAS and yes the DB is writable.
I am fairly certain that the files have a different path after being copied. What you see in DT is a relative path, inside the current database folder.
That copying files does not move (ie delete at the old location) them is A Good Thing, perverting desaster.
Well, it is definitely not the case in my scenario. HOWERVER: After Moving only the DT Group (Group shows up in new Database) I can than select all files within the group and richt click “Move to database” which will result in moving the files. Problem solved.
I solved there problem. Thank you for your support.