setting up devonthink to go with synology

SETTING UP DEVONTHINK TO GO WITH SYNOLOGY SERIES
SETTING UP DEVONTHINK TO GO WITH SYNOLOGY MAC

However, I only do my personal syncing on my network. I have three Macs and three iOS devices that use it with few issues (as nothing is perfect, but the issues are under the hood and don’t inhibit sync).

SETTING UP DEVONTHINK TO GO WITH SYNOLOGY MAC

I run a Mac Mini and macOS Server (the version before Apple decided to neuter it and remove WebDAV). While it generally behaves as intended, it’s a process outside our control.ĭo you use a private WebDAV server rather than a public cloud? ICloud is a two-stage sync, syncing locally then iCloud does it’s own syncing on its own schedule. When sync activity is done in DEVONthink, the data is on their servers. It doesn’t even use the Dropbox application on your Mac. Only because it’s a one-stage sync, directly to Dropbox’s servers. Why do you recommend Dropbox over iCloud?

SETTING UP DEVONTHINK TO GO WITH SYNOLOGY SERIES

Also, you should read the recent series of articles we posted: We strongly advocate proper primary backups using TimeMachine (or similar snapshot-style backup applications) and external drives. I am notorious for this little saw (the gist now included in our FAQ): Sync is not a backup, neither advertised nor advocated as such. More copies are better to avoid data loss. I’m thinking two = redundancy for backup. Off the network is likely also possible but you’d have to refer to the NAS documentation about that. You (likely) could also set up WebDAV on the NAS and use that for syncing in-house. (PS: I emphasize need as I’m personally not an advocate of using a remote sync just because you can.) You could also use a Dropbox or iCloud sync location if you needed to sync the machines if you were roaming around with the laptop outside your network.

You could also make a Bonjour connection with one Mac acting as the server for the databases. Yes, that’s certainly one possibility, or… So if I move the DTP folder up a level so it is not sync’d to my second Mac, I could then create a sync store on the NAS then have the new MAC import from the sync store? I recently got an iMac… hence I now have 2 MACs.ģ. Sorry if I was unclear about “2 MACs”… I have had DTP on a laptop since I started using it. Move it in the Finder and double-click it to open it again.Ģ. Is there a process for doing this so that DTP will find it again? Moving the folder out of the sync’d folder is fine. But this solution would not work for windows/linux/android users.1. And since I use a mac/ios devices, it's fine. But nothing comes close to devonthink IMO. I have tried multiple times to ditch DevonThink, because i'd prefer to have a web application running on the NAS itself to manage document storage/database. And my documents are not at risk of being lost because they are stored on the NAS (with redundant drives) and also backed up to cloud. This set up allows me to access all of my documents and search them from all of my devices. The NAS has a HyperBackup task to back up my encrypted document database to BackBlaze B2, which is very cost effective. In addition, I can add a document to devonthink from any device and it will be sync'd to the NAS and accessible on all other devices. That way every single document can be found and accessed on any of my devices (via VPN). I have several macs and mobile devices that use DevonThink - each one configured to sync with my NAS. DevonThink syncs my document database with the Synology NAS via WebDAV automatically. I have a Synology NAS set up with a WebDAV share. DevonThink has a database of all my documents and keeps it indexed/searchable). Scanned documents go directly into DevonThink ( ). I scan all documents with a ScanSnap scanner connected to my mac and they are OCR'd immediately - this is very efficient and fast.

Setting up devonthink to go with synology