Am 02.03.2008 um 12:15 schrieb Christiaan Hofman: > > 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 >
Remotely related: It actually seems as if developers were rather quick in claiming that their backup software is respecting extended attributes prematurely. I myself had some issues with Intego's Personal Backup (X4, thus not the newest version released a few weeks ago which I did not buy because of my trouble with X4). They claimed that extended attributes are copied by PB but after trusting their product for a complete backup and restore operation on my iBook all notes were gone... for good. After I complained to them about it they sent me a beta of PB which on the third attempt did respect ext. atts. I am not even sure they ever released an update for X4 to fix the bug... I wonder why the backup programs are so buggy when it comes to saving ext atts. Super Duper seems to be fine from what I heard though. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
