I just noticed that my DEVONthink Metadata folder, located within the User/Library/Cache/ directory has grown to nearly 2GB in size!
First of all, I never even knew this folder existed, and I’ve certainly never backed it up - that is, if it does contain information related to the metadata I’ve applied to my documents over the years which I might want to have a backup of in case my computer does have a melt down…
Can someone help clarify the following:
- What this folder is for?
- Is it somehow possible to embed all relevant metadata within each document itself, rather than in a external folder somewhere else?
- Is there any way to reduce the size of this ‘Metadata’ folder so that it’s not eating up 2GB of my HD?
- Does it need to be backed-up (assuming that I don’t backup using one of the scripts, but instead simply use a backup program like ChronoSync or Retrospect to backup my “DEVONthink Pro Databases” folder (which contains several of my DB database packages).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!