I live my life in the inbox. It’s a mess. I’ve been learning to use tags, setting up folders to move them in, etc. Today I thought I as moving 20-30 documents into a folder but suddenly everything seems to be shuffled somewhere else. Now I can’t find anything at I’m in trouble.
I restored my primary database from Time Machine, but it looks the same, almost nothing in my inbox. How can I get a full replication of “whatever it looked like yesterday” if not from pulling the database from time machine?
Which inbox are you referring to? The Global Inbox, or the inbox of another database? (The Global Inbox is its own database by the way, so restoring another database will not restore the Global Inbox database.)
How do you know the documents are lost. Did you search all of your databases? Did you search the rest of the machine? Did you look in DEVONthink trash or the file system trash?
Unless you emptied the trash after the glitch, the documents are not lost. They are just somewhere you inadvertently moved them to.
[I find the “restore database” will allow me to restore the inbox to it’s previous state but I have only two backups there, the most recent being 6 days ago.]
The Global Inbox. They are not lost; I moved them to I know not where. I can find them in one particular folder but there are also tags listed there (of which I know little) and it’s a jumble. I also have tried filtering (of which I again no little) and find that there are many very old files purportedly “modified” today, (after making various copies and zipping them) which I have clearly not modified.
So it’s likely all there in a jumble. I’m trying to save my self the process of hunting them all down by fetching from a backup. But (seemingly) TM backups are giving me the same internal sorting.
But perhaps you’ve give me a clues. I am TM restoring a TM backup of GS.dtbase2 and I should be looking for Inbox somewhere on my drive. Where would it be located?
I’m finished. Thanks for listening. I’ve decided to move all subfolder contents to the inbox, all several years of them, and resort them manually. Once burned twice shy. I’ll take the time to learn a little more about DT’s mechanics before getting creative. I guess I should learn a little more after using it for 15+ years or whatever it is…