How to Put Items Back in Place

Sometimes a mishap occurs and an item in DEVONthink finds itself in a location where it simply doesn’t belong. You may have accidentally moved a document to the wrong location, e.g., dragged into the wrong group in another database. Perhaps it was classified incorrectly. Or maybe you accidentally trashed an item and just found it in the database’s Trash. But fortunately, there is a simple command to restore the item to it’s former location.

To move the item back to its previous location, you can use the Put Back command. Select the item in its new location and choose Data > Move To > Put Back, or Control-click and select the command from the context menu. If your item has been classified incorrectly, for example, and the action appears in Window > Log, you will also find the command in the context menu by Control-clicking the entry (as shown in the screenshot).

DEVONthink remembers the item’s previous location even if you quit and relaunch the application. But be aware this only moves the document back to its previous location, it is not storing the history of moves to continuing moving it back to older locations.

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