Replicants and Duplicates work not across databases

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Replicants and Duplicates work not across databases. - I guess that’s by design?

At the same time it looks to me like a missing feature…

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AFAIK, duplicates do work across databases (because they are copies, initially), and replicants don’t. The latter is probably a technical limitation of the concept.

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@chrillek is correct. It’s down to your “design” of databases. Don’t get them so segregated that the inability to use the powerful replicate feature gets in the way. I do a lot of replication in my main database “Interesting Stuff” as it helps with research later (which is the point of all this DEVONthink activity for me.

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I wasn’t clear in my initial post: I meant replicant and duplicate detection. I think duplicate dedection doesn’t go across DBs.

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You can just try it out. And yes, duplicates are apparently not detected across databases. As replicants don’t exist across databases, there detection is a non-issue.

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Correct.

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I did try it out. :smile: And I did notice that the same document I bad filed by accident in to different DBs did have duplicate count of 0.

That’s why I started this topic (to make sure I didn’t get anything wrong).