I don’t see a place in preferences to save, so it must have been prompted the first time. Do a Spotlight search for the extension .dwlibrary (for a document library) or .rwlibrary (for a receipt library).

I did notice that in the preferences, there is a place to checkmark “write metadata to PDF’s” and “append date to filenames of documents”. I have everything on that preference panel checked and that makes it easy to identify the files in the “package contents”.

Hopefully, your spotlight search will find your files. And then make sure that those items are checked in your preferences. This will make the documents easier to identify on their own.

I just have a little problem: where is the Paperless library?

I don’t see it in Application Support. I performed a Spotlight search and couldn’t find it either.

Inside the Receipts/Documents folder is nested folders based on year/month of the scanned item. Inside those folders are the .pdf files that were created when they were brought into the Paperless library.

So if Paperless does go out of business and if the application were no longer able to function, just right-click and drag out the Receipts/Document folder that holds it all. The files are nicely nested by time period and the file names are labeled with their name/date.

Nice structure.

Note: great application, real time-saver.
The only problem is: the day the get out of business, if we’re still around, well, we’ll have to export everything from Paperless to PDFs and here we go again…

If I’m importing existing PDF’s, etc. does Paperless make a COPY of the PDF for it’s own database or does it simply reference the current location of the existing document.

In other words, do I leave documents where they’re currently stored or do I delete them after importing into Paperless.

Also, not to be a troll, but when you say you don’t want to trust proprietary software to store important documents, what do you call an encrypted Apple sparse image? Can that .dmg file be rendered usable if you don’t have access to Mac OS? If not, then it’s proprietary.

All the best with your new shows.

Phil

Script has two errors in it. First is that the quotation marks are not the right format. Should be ” to be recognized. The second is a syntax error, that states “Expected end of line but found identifier” for the line ending in “ocr aPage”. Any savvy Apple-scripters out that that has the right solution?

Thangs