solved [SOLVED] DevonThink 3 Results in Alfred

[bk161124]

Hi! I just switched to DevonThink 3 and with DevonThink 2 I could search and find all files inside my DT Databases with Alfred. This does not work anymore. I enabled the Spotlight Index of my Databases and the Files are found with Spotlight, but not with Alfred. Do I have to enable something else in Alfred to be able to find my files with Alfred? I thought it would just use the Spotlight index and the results should be the same…

 

Thanks!

[crystaljjlee]

Following this thread -- I'm trying to figure out what to do about this, too. 

[deanishe]

On 4/27/2019 at 7:42 AM, bk161124 said:

I thought it would just use the Spotlight index and the results should be the same…

 

Which folder are the DevonThink 3 files in? Have you added it to your search scope?

 

I don't have DevonThink, but that would be the obvious explanation for why Alfred isn't finding the files (Spotlight always looks everywhere; Alfred only looks where you tell it to).

[bk161124]

1 hour ago, deanishe said:

 

Which folder are the DevonThink 3 files in? Have you added it to your search scope?

 

I don't have DevonThink, but that would be the obvious explanation for why Alfred isn't finding the files (Spotlight always looks everywhere; Alfred only looks where you tell it to).

 

Hi deanishe, thanks for your answer. The DT Databases are located in ~/Documents and they were there before, when it was DT2 and Alfred found the files. I’ll open a thread in the DT Forums and link it here.

 

Edit: DevonThink Forum Thread

Edited April 29, 2019 by bk161124
Added Link to DevonThink Forum Thread​​​​​​​

[deanishe]

54 minutes ago, bk161124 said:

The DT Databases are located in ~/Documents

 

That isn't where the Spotlight/Alfred data are. You need to specify the directory where the exported metadata are, not the database. I just installed DevonThink 3 demo to test, and the correct path appears to be ~/Library/Metadata/com.devon-technologies.think3 (where ~ means your home directory).

 

Add that to Alfred's Search Scope and see if it works then.

Edited April 29, 2019 by deanishe

[bk161124]

Thanks! Thats it, the Developer of DT just replied with the same answer to my thread over at their forum.

[deanishe]

👍 Shame he didn't post that the first time. Would have saved me having to figure out how his app works.

 

Still, I guess it's documented here, too, now.

Edited April 29, 2019 by deanishe

[rtzuio]

Searching with Alfred works for me. However, if I search for a PDF in my DT database which was downloaded from a website (so it has the url in the meta data), it doesn’t open the file in DEVONthink but the website. Any ideas how to fix this?

 

Btw, I had to add to Alfred’s scope the file type “com.devon-technologies.metadata.think3”, otherwise it didn’t find anything.

[Quexpo]

On 4/29/2019 at 10:25 AM, deanishe said:

[...] the correct path appears to be ~/Library/Metadata/com.devon-technologies.think3 (where ~ means your home directory).

 

Add that to Alfred's Search Scope and see if it works then.

 

Thanks. This worked perfect.

 

But i had a little struggle on finding Library/Metadata -> it wasn't shown up in finder/alfred. For anyone else who is struggeling:

i solved it by opening Terminal.app and run the command:
 

open Library/Metadata

 

After this, finder opens in the Metadata folder and you can drag and drop the folder

com.devon-technologies.think3

into alfreds Search Scope List under

Features -> Default Results -> Search Scope