- DT asked me for a database name and the password twice (password + verification, as if I was creating rather than accessing the database).
And what is set in File > Database Properties on the Mac you generated the database on?
This was just discussed in the Jan. 30 blog post: Understanding Database Credentials
- It started importing 25000 elements, although I have no idea why the count is so high.
As has been discussed many times before, the number of items being synced is not the number of documents in a database. It is not a file copying mechanism. It chunks files for transport as needed and also has transactional data involved.
- I asked DT to save the database on a network volume
Are you hardwired on a gigabit Ethernet connection? If not, it is not recommended to put DEVONthink databases on a networked volume.
and it only saved a sparseimage of around 250 mb before proceeding to fill up my entire internal SSD and generating an error.
What error?