Thank you for your interest and patience.
Yes, if I drag something from the MainGlobal Inbox to, say, “X Database” in the Globals section, it goes into that Inbox.
However, the Global X Database Inbox does not seem to exist anywhere in the file hierarchy of X Database, or at least I don’t see it. So next I have to drag the file from the Gobal X Database Inbox, into the database itself.
And yes, if I drop it on X Database Name in the Sidebar, it goes to root and gets filed alphabetically in the hierarchy. Which means I have to go find it (remember it’s name well enough to find it, or do a search to find it), and drag it somewhere else.
The only alternative is to drag a file from its Global X Database Inbox, and hover over the database name in the Sidebar to drop it down, and keep hovering deeper into the hierarchy until I get to the right folder.
Then, should I want to move another file from a Global Inbox into a different database in the Sidebar, either I have to manually close the first one (it does not close by itself after hovering on it), and open another, or as the alphabet dictates, scroll past endless folders, to get to the right one, hover there, etc. And if, as you suggest, I have ten databases open, this can go on, and on, and on.
As I said, as a moderately successful alternative, I created my own folder inside each database named *X Database Inbox, the asterisk makes it ride at the top of the file hierarchy, and I can drag something from the Global Inbox or the Global X Database Inbox to my own *Inbox folder. Of course, the database must be open, and I must drop it down even to see that top folder, and then I must manually close that file hierarchy in order to go somewhere else, or scroll past everything open, etc., etc., etc.
Similarly, if I drag an external file onto the name of a Database in the Sorter and don’t want it to go to root, I have to hover the cursor so the file hierarchy will drop down in order to put it somewhere specific, and if I do that, the file hierarchy in the Sorter stays open. So here again, the next time I want to put something into a different database in the Sorter, I have to open the Sorter, and either close the first database hierarchy, or scroll all the way down past the long file hierarchy of that one to get to the next one, the first and second to get to the third, etc., etc.
This is why I dragged my own *X Database Inbox" into the Sorter Favorites.
But, of course, unlike the Sorter in DT2, I can’t put a file anywhere in the DT3 Sorter unless a database is open; if it isn’t open, I have to put it in Global, which goes back to all the problems described above.
I really fail to understand the value of having yet another file hierarchy in the Sorter (one of three; one was perfectly satisfactory in DT2), and why there have to be Global Inboxes for each one as an intermediate step, and why the only ones that are available are those for open databases.
The Sorter in DT2 was perfect – you put an Inbox for any of your databases into the Sorter and there it was, whether the database was open or closed; no hovering, no closing, no scrolling, no extra steps. Clean and elegant and extremely useful. I must say the way it works in DT3 is really very annoying.
But perhaps I still don’t understanding this? Appreciate any insights or suggestions you might have; I’m frustrated.