Does anyone know how to get DT to remember what groups are expanded? Every time I exit out and come back in, the same groups are open, which were not open when I closed.
I’ve got an accounting database with groups by year:
2018
<01 January
<<Income
<<Expenses
<02 February
…etc.
2019
2020
etc.
When I exit out, I’ve got 2020/April/Expenses expanded, and everything else closed.
Every single time I open the app, it’s got 2019 expanded and I can’t remember the months that are open. 2020 is closed.
It’s as if I’ve somehow told DT to do that, though I haven’t on purpose.
Hi. There’s an option to automatically expand & collapse sidebar, and that’s checked. There’s a retain view for interface as well. I’ll play around with these.
I’d like to inform that I am also aware of this issue, and the Automatically expand & collapse option is unchecked.
I have tried:
manually close the group that somehow always expand each time I launch DEVONthink
relaunch DEVONthink
Until now, each time I launch DEVONthink, the same 3 specific groups (and some of their specific children) will be expanded even though in the previous session I have collapsed the groups
more information @cgrunenberg:
I just noticed that the groups that are auto-expanded on startup are Increment with specific three of its child groups, and MacStories. The other groups will remember last session’s expand/collapse state.
I tried to be a little “out-of-the-box”, I created new Group New Group, then I put the Increment and MacStories group inside it.
I quit and relaunch and verify database a couple of times, then tried put those two Groups in the original place and deleted New Group.
Still the same
This is not even a mildly annoying issue, but after I monkey-tested this for a while, I started to accept the way it is now.
no, it is not expanded.
after I relocate them to the surface of the database, the auto expand continue the exact previous behaviour tho (Increment and MacStories expands)
Leave the groups in the root of the database and try this…
Quit DEVONthink.
In the Finder, press Command-Shift-G and paste: ~/Library/Preferences . Leave this window open
Copy the com.devon-technologies.think3.plist to your Desktop.
Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and paste: defaults delete com.devon-technologies.think3 and press Return.
Type: exit , press Return and quit Terminal.
Relaunch DEVONthink.
If all looks as expected, quit DEVONthink, drag and drop the copy on your desktop into the Preferences folder and overwrite the new file. Then relaunch DEVONthink.
hi, unfortunately deleting defaults don’t fix this issue. I also tried cleaning my mac with Onyx and it don’t effect the groups’ expansion state. (I did that with the logic that Onyx cleans the directory open state in Finder in list view).
fortunately, my last resort finally fix this issue. I remade the parent groups.
I did Ungroup Items then Group Items with the same previous parent groups’ name.
I think this final approach —while it seems not a best practice— is safe to be also done by the post starter @TeacherBart, as this won’t affect item linking or classification AFAIK
