Removing folder as potential destination from See Also & Classify

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I was thinking that by tickmarking exclude from See Also on a folder property, but the folder keeps popping up as a potential destination. What is supposed to be happening ?

Documentation says:

Exclude From…: These checkboxes allow you to exclude an item from being used in various ways. For example, you can exclude temporary groups from classification to increase the accuracy of the built-in artificial intelligence. You can exclude an item from these operations:

Classification: When enabled on a group, this will keep DEVONthink from suggesting or using the group as a possible filing location.
See Also: When enabled on any file, DEVONthink will not include it as an item potentially related to the current file.

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Exactly what you’re seeing.
Read it again as well as your statement: “… tickmarking See Also on a folder property…”.

As stated in the documentation for See Also: “When enabled on any file…”. A group is not a file.
And Classification is also clear: “When enabled on a group…”.

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The goal is: I do not want to see a certain ‘Group’ being proposed as a destination for auto-classification. Is this possible ?

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Yes, just exclude the group from classification via the Info > Generic inspector.

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Doesn’t seem to work … the folder clearly appears in See Also & Classify even though it’s flagged to be excluded. Should I treat this as a bug and investigate ?

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I just tried this and it seems to work as expected actually. A screenshot of the Info > Generic inspector showing the exclusions of this group and screenshot of the See Also & Classify inspector showing the results might be useful.

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Here I am with more feedback. What I have determined is that ticking exclude from on a parent group doesn’t affect all subgroups, so you have to go tick exclude from see also and classify to all of the subgroups for it to work. Intentional ? I am happy nonetheless. I’ve begun to really appreciate the ‘Think’ part of DevonThink!

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This is currently intended as items might have multiple parent groups/tags using different exclusion settings.

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I see there’s an exclude from classification property in DEVONthink’s scripting dictionary, which you could use for bulk operations.