On 2 Mar 2008, at 5:33 AM, Jim Delaney wrote: > Hi all, > > A quick note about Time Machine and Skim notes (I haven't seen > anything on this list about this yet). Following a hard-drive > meltdown and the purchase of a new drive, I attempted a restore > through Time Machine. All worked well, but I was horrified to see all > of my Skim notes stripped away. I had (wrongly) assumed that Time > Machine could handle extended attributes properly. Following a couple > of hours of moping about the loss of close to a year of notes, I tried > to simply drag my Papers folder from my backup drive back onto my Mac, > and there the Skim notes were. > > Lesson learned: Time Machine restore strips Skim notes, but they are > backed up. > > Hope that this may alleviate some stress for somebody else. > > Best, > > Jim D
Thanks for this important info. I've added it to the FAQ and submitted a bug report with Apple. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
