bk161124 Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 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! Link to comment
crystaljjlee Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Following this thread -- I'm trying to figure out what to do about this, too. Link to comment
deanishe Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 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). Link to comment
bk161124 Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 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 Link to comment
deanishe Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 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 zeitlings and Quexpo 2 Link to comment
bk161124 Posted April 29, 2019 Author Share Posted April 29, 2019 Thanks! Thats it, the Developer of DT just replied with the same answer to my thread over at their forum. Link to comment
deanishe Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) 👍 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 jmohr, OAL and mikes 3 Link to comment
rtzuio Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 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. Link to comment
Quexpo Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 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 Link to comment
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