On Apr 23, 2010, at 21:03, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:04 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:14, Keith D. Matthews wrote: >>> I used to have skim set to *always* store notes in a separate .skim file. >>> Unfortunately, since I've upgraded Skim I've lost this setting, and I can't >>> find anything in the preferences to put it back. >>> >>> Is there a way to set this up with the new version? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Keith >> >> "Automaticall Save Skim notes backups" > > Hi all, > > I just started trying Skim out, and I want to annotate my pdf library > which is synced using Dropbox. Unfortunately Dropbox can't currently > sync the extended attributes, so the only way to get the annotations > synced is to save them to a skim file. I hoped the above setting would > work, but it appears that while it makes skim *save* the notes to a > skim file, it doesn't *load* the notes from them (unless there are no > notes in the EAs at all). Thus, if the notes are synced from a remote > computer, when I open the pdf in skim, it will use the old notes that > are in the extended attributes, not the updated ones in the skim file. > Is there a way to make skim also automatically *load* the notes from > the skim file? > > Thanks, > > /Patrik J.
No, because that would be data loss. I understood that Dropbox will very soon have a version that supports EAs, I believe there's an experimental version that supports EAs. You can also save the PDFs as PDF bundles, that is always safe. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
