Is there a way to reveal a moved item immediately (by shortcut key or menu option) after it has been moved to the new location?
If not, is there a script that could do that?
Yes, there is a possibility of doing this. However, it could quickly become cumbersome if the behavior wasn’t always desirable.
Here is a possibility noting it’s targeting a specific group that would regularly receive moved files…
Development would have to assess a request for the specific behavior to be baked in to the app.
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I’ll give it a try. Thank you, sir!
I use this brilliant script, most kindly provided to me by @pete31, to whom I remain grateful to this day (the original thread is here)
tell application id "DNtp"
try
set currDate to current date
set theComparisonDate to currDate - 86400
set theDatabases to databases
repeat with thisDatabase in theDatabases
set thisDatabasesResults to search "additionDate >" & theComparisonDate in (root of thisDatabase)
if thisDatabasesResults ≠ {} then
repeat with i from (count thisDatabasesResults) to 1 by -1
set theRecord to item i in thisDatabasesResults
if type of theRecord is not in {group, smart group} and type of parent 1 of theRecord is not feed then
set thisDatabasesLastAdded to theRecord
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
try
if (addition date of thisDatabasesLastAdded) ≥ theComparisonDate then
set theComparisonDate to (addition date of thisDatabasesLastAdded)
set globalLastAdded to thisDatabasesLastAdded
end if
end try
end if
end repeat
if viewer window 1 exists then
set theBounds to bounds of viewer window 1
set newWindow to open window for record parent 1 of globalLastAdded
set bounds of newWindow to {(item 1 of theBounds) + 22, (item 2 of theBounds) + 22, ((item 3 of theBounds)), (item 4 of theBounds)}
else
set newWindow to open window for record parent 1 of globalLastAdded
end if
set selection of newWindow to {globalLastAdded}
activate
on error error_message number error_number
if the error_number is not -128 and error_number is not -2753 then
display alert "DEVONthink 3" & space & error_number message error_message as warning
end if
end try
end tell
I have the script in the toolbar - and use it all the time. It actually doesn’t do quite what you are asking for: it will open a new window with the group into which the last record was added, with that record highlighted. Because it looks for the last addition, it will work for you if you move a record to a new database, but not if you move it within a database. I have integrated it into following workflow: new record in the global inbox; move that record to its permanent location using the AI classification; run the script; now I can see which naming convention I last used for this specific type of record; manually rename record. (This is my workflow for documents I only seldom receive; those which I receive several times per year are almost all completely automated.)
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Cool, this might work better.