# External folder sync between Scrivener and DevonThink **URL:** \ **Category:** Scrivener for macOS\ **Tags:** support, sync\ **Created:** [June 1, 2026, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/external-folder-sync-between-scrivener-and-devonthink/153937 "2026-06-01T14:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/user_avatar/forum.literatureandlatte.com/kewms/32/15720_2.png) [@kewms](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/u/kewms)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/external-folder-sync-between-scrivener-and-devonthink/153937/2 "2026-06-01T17:15:15Z")
The thread you linked has a very detailed technical explanation of what’s going on: > [@sync with external folder option gets unchecked](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/sync-with-external-folder-option-gets-unchecked/50337/13): > > There are two programmed modifications to your settings that will happen: If you load a backed up copy of your project, you’ll find the Path value has been deleted. As you can imagine, loading an old backup with a live and current sync folder would be awful. So we take a hard line on that and make it very difficult to even attempt to do that. If a project is opened and the sync folder cannot be found, then it soft-disables itself with the checkbox, like you describe. This gives you an opportu… What is your ultimate goal? It’s possible to index an entire Scrivener project in DevonThink. That will allow DT to search the contents, but won’t allow DT to add (Scrivener) item-level metadata. In my own work, I simply use DT and Scrivener side-by-side, with DT as my main research repository. That is, in this case, I might put the interview transcript directly into DT, and then bookmark a DT item link in Scrivener. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/external-folder-sync-between-scrivener-and-devonthink/153937)._