Thank you for the suggestions. For various automation reasons, I need the indexed files in the Dropbox folder, and I didn’t want to muck around too much with system-level stuff, so my easy (for me) solution was to automate the shut-down of DEVONthink on the remote machine whenever I Iaunch DEVONthink on the MacBook Pro. It’s on a launch/quit schedule via Keyboard Maestro, but I’ve also set up one piece of automation on each of the two machines:
- I have a Keyboard Maestro trigger set up on the MacBook Pro, which, if I open DEVONthink, places a simple text file in a particular Dropbox folder.
- Keyboard Maestro on the remote machine has a trigger that, if a file appears in that Dropbox folder (i.e., synced over from the MacBook to the desktop Mac), quits DEVONthink on the remote machine.
It’s only been one day, but so far, so good. I appreciate all the help figuring out what was happening on this one.