after a crash the DT database of a user is corrupt.
Only an older backup is availible.
Is it poossible to create a new DT user database from an existing sync store ?
after a crash the DT database of a user is corrupt.
Only an older backup is availible.
Is it poossible to create a new DT user database from an existing sync store ?
Did DEVONthink or the computer crash? And what exactly is corrupt? In addition, please disable the sync store in Preferences > Sync to avoid that the corruption gets synchronized.
parts of the DT database erased - recovery not possible
After a crash of what… DEVONthink or the Mac?
parts of the DT database erased
Hold the Option key and choose File > Restore Backup and choose an earlier date to see if it’s a metadata issue.
Mac (heavy) crash
Restore Backup doesn´t help much.
Database check&repair = missing 1575 files
repair failed
Remembering sync is not a backup, neither advertised nor advocated as such…
fixed … long night
As a result, only a few files of today have been lost, but they could be restored manually.
Thank you very much for the support !
Glad to hear it.
And I had a very long day a month ago when a backup drive failed before a critical change I was intending to make. But partial backups are still better than no backups to fall back on!
So do I take it that you can, if all else fails, import your databases back from the sync store? (I never fully understood what the sync store contained: I assumed it wasn’t the actual data.)
I assumed it wasn’t the actual data
It’s not. Except for a direct connection (Bonjour), sync locations don’t contain the “actual data”.
So you can’t you retrieve the database like that? Oder?
As it’s possible to import remote databases from a sync store, it’s of course also possible to import the latest version after deleting the local database. But it’s not recommended as the only backup tool.