It would be the most sophisticated sync method for the Mac that I’ve ever seen.īut maybe I’m hugely wrong and someone will point out my embarrassing mistake? If I am right, then for me at least, this is going to kill the likes of Evernote and iCloud Documents stone dead. Have I got this right? Because, if I have, then this syncing is revolutionary: very large amounts of data should be able to be synced via Dropbox without impinging much on one’s Dropbox quota. It all worked! But - how? My Dropbox space quota didn’t decrease by 391.6MB, so presumably I’m right in thinking that only this “sync store” file is synced, and - somehow - this instructs Dropbox to sync the “real” contents of the databases, silently, in the background - and without increasing the space used by Dropbox. I set all this up and synced a modestly-sized “test” database of 391.6MB. If DEVONthink is in fact unselected, then HOW does DEVONthink in fact do its syncing via Dropbox? (I wasn’t in on the beta use of this, so please excuse my ignorance here, but obviously there are going to be many others who are as mystified as I am as to how all this works.) The databases are not being synced by simple “Dropbox syncing” (this can’t be the case, since in the Dropbox preferences, the DEVONthink folder in the selective sync “Apps” folder is deselected, and thus the database isn’t in the Dropbox folder) apparently only a “sync store” file is being synced, invisibly in the background. Which, secondly, brings me on to the syncing method itself (at least, the Dropbox method). (Some people might only have that DEVONthink folder in the “Apps” folder, but others may have other folders that they still want to sync.)
The instructions should clearly state that in the Dropbox preferences, you should continue to the advanced view and uncheck only the DEVONthink folder. This is very misleading and could lead to data loss! Many people like myself have other apps (such as Day One) also syncing, and unchecking the “Apps” folder would probably result in the loss of those apps’ data. The instructions tell you to set the Dropbox preferences ( Preferences > Advanced > Selective Sync) to exclude the “Apps” folder.
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There are a few points I’d like to raise, and a few questions I’d like to ask about the new DEVONthink syncing method (particularly the Dropbox method), to clarify matters.įirstly, I think the instructions on how to set up the Dropbox sync should be changed.
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