How widespread is the problem of restoring Skim files from Time
Machine? So far, I have been able to do it without any difficulty.
This applies (a) to Skim bundles (pdfd), which might be expected but
also (b) to ordinary Skim files saved as pdfs, which have been
restored together with their highlighting, underlining, text notes and
anchored notes. The restored files appear to be identical to the
originals in every respect.
mf
On 6 Mar 2008, at 10:59, Rolf Schmolling wrote:
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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