Am 02.03.2008 um 17:32 schrieb Alex Hamann:
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.
I don't know about a full HD-restore (lucky me) – yet but I wonder if
there might be sth. else related with restore-operations from
TimeMachine backups. As I learned from this blog-article
http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2008/03/x5_time_machine#spotlight
TimeMachine is using the Finder in copying files to restore them and
thus strips extended attributes… I cannot say if this is true (and I
am not enough Terminal-jockey to use safer means – "cp") but this
might be a way to get _some_ files back with the notes still properly
attached/embedded?
Greetings,
Rolf
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