Hi Christiaan, Thanks for responding. What data is lost?
It won't work with Dropbox because they only sync specific EAs, and the Skim eas are not among those. And I can't save the pdfs as pdf bundles because I use Papers, and papers only understands pdfs. cheers, /Patrik On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
