Sorter Sound Location?

Allsop · January 10, 2014, 7:30am

I like the sounds associated with sorter and want to use them for other purposes, associated with non-DTPO applications, where are the sounds located and would it be possible to use them for other things? Cheers.

korm · January 10, 2014, 10:22am

If you don’t find the answer, you might search the internet for .aiff files whose names might signify the sound you want. Say, search for “drip.aiff”. Once found, you put those files in ~/Library/Sounds. (See this for more information about custom sounds.)

Allsop · January 12, 2014, 12:24pm

Thanks yopiu Korm.

BLUEFROG · January 12, 2014, 2:47pm

It’s buried pretty deeply… If you right-click the DEVONthink application and choose “Show Package Contents”, go down this rabbit hole…

/Contents/PlugIns/SorterPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/DEVONthink Sorter.app/Contents/Resources/DropOK.aif

Just make sure you’re copying, not moving.

Allsop · January 12, 2014, 4:30pm

Thanks Bluefrog.
I get as far as “SorterPlugin.bundle” and no further.

Clicking on Contents opens up Terminal.

korm · January 12, 2014, 5:15pm

Go into the MacOS folder. Not the Plugins folder. (Jim’s reply above has the whole path.)

Allsop · January 12, 2014, 6:16pm

I must be particularly thick today but still can not get it! This is what I get from Jim’s 1st. instruction to right click on the Applivation, (which DTP Office):

If I then go to either the MacOS Folder and proceed I get Termonal. Must be going wrong somewhere

Greg_Jones · January 12, 2014, 6:36pm

This screen shot was taken from Path Finder (full path at the top).

Click on the link for the full image.

http://cl.ly/image/1j2x3Q3o2k1V

Allsop · January 12, 2014, 6:59pm

OK this is very frustrating. Here is an image of where I am compared with Greg’s. See especially his path at the top image and mine on the bottom. I come to a dead end with SorterPlugin.bundle. Sorry but that is how it is I I can not seem to get round it! Help!!!

Greg_Jones · January 12, 2014, 8:43pm

Using the Finder, once you get to the SorterPlugin.bundle you need to again right-click and select ‘Show Package Contents’.

korm · January 12, 2014, 10:09pm

Here’s an another approach:

If you have installed DEVONthink on your computer “for all users”, copy the path below. Go to Finder. Click Go > Go to Folder… and paste the path in the dialog window. Press Return and that folder will open.


/Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/SorterPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/DEVONthink Sorter.app/Contents/Resources/

If you have installed DEVONthink for just the user that you used to log in with, then use this path in the Go command:


~/Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/SorterPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/DEVONthink Sorter.app/Contents/Resources/DropOK.aif

In either case, if you have installed DEVONthink into a subfolder of Applications, be sure to add the name of that folder. For example, this is my path:


/Applications/DEVONthink Pro Office/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/PlugIns/SorterPlugin.bundle/Contents/MacOS/DEVONthink Sorter.app/Contents/Resources

Do not use my path (the last example) unless of course that’s also the locale for your copy of DEVONthink.

Allsop · January 13, 2014, 7:26am

Thank you Greg & Korm for your last posts, at last I have got it Cheers.