Uli Plank wrote:And never trust anybody suggesting to delete a library or even mess with it in the Finder outside of DR.
Always leave libraries where they are. If you need to change them, use only commands from the Project Manager and let DR take care of it.
There's nothing magical, sacred or opaque about a library, and the tools in the manager may not be adequate to correct all conditions.
For example, incremental backups which won't restore. They're in the designated folder, but the system won't or can't locate or see them. If your choice is between losing a week or month of work, or taking the momentous step of locating the project backup you want, removing the date/time stamp information, putting it in a folder and putting that into the Projects folder of the db, what do you do?
Or, you have a 500MB database on disk that you have no further need of. You're really going to let it set there forever, disconnected but ever-present, out of fear of deleting it with the OS?
Or you want to move a database to another disk. You really insist on creating a backup and then restoring it? How about just dragging it to the other disk and connecting?
Obviously all this is at one's own risk, but this living in fear of it can become a large inconvenience -- and contributes, I think, to the confusion here. If people actually looked at how libraries/databases are constructed, there might be less trouble.