Link to DevonThink2 Library
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:20 pm
I keep documents in a DevonThink library, including downloaded attachments. It "should" be possible to have a Bookends 11 reference link to a document in that library, but it's not clear to me how to make that happen easily. DevonThink has a complex filing structure. In Finder, you see the DT icon for the library, but to see the raw contents you have to use CTRL and then pick Show Package Contents. A given pdf file might then be at
~/Docs/LibraryOfUser.dtBase2/Files.noindex/pdf/0/name_of_file.pdf
Ordinarily, one never bothers with this stuff, instead viewing the files inside the DevonThink browser in what seems visibly to be an ordinary folder structure but is actually an internal-to-DevonThink structure of "groups" linked to files such as the above deep in the package structure.
It does not seem possible to navigate to file with the Select attachment in BookEnds because of the package structure. One could select the entire data base, but not get inside--unless there is a magic incantation I don't know. Even if there is, that would be very tedious. Going the opposite direction, you can drag the file above onto the BE attachment pane, but that would be to copy the document rather than just link. I tried creating an alias and dragging that onto the pane, but Bookends said it couldn't find the file.
??
This seems important because it makes more sense to me at least to store items in DevonThink, which is built for that, rather than in ~/Documents/Bookends/Attachments (path approximate).
~/Docs/LibraryOfUser.dtBase2/Files.noindex/pdf/0/name_of_file.pdf
Ordinarily, one never bothers with this stuff, instead viewing the files inside the DevonThink browser in what seems visibly to be an ordinary folder structure but is actually an internal-to-DevonThink structure of "groups" linked to files such as the above deep in the package structure.
It does not seem possible to navigate to file with the Select attachment in BookEnds because of the package structure. One could select the entire data base, but not get inside--unless there is a magic incantation I don't know. Even if there is, that would be very tedious. Going the opposite direction, you can drag the file above onto the BE attachment pane, but that would be to copy the document rather than just link. I tried creating an alias and dragging that onto the pane, but Bookends said it couldn't find the file.
??
This seems important because it makes more sense to me at least to store items in DevonThink, which is built for that, rather than in ~/Documents/Bookends/Attachments (path approximate).