On Apr 23, 2010, at 23:08, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > Hi Christiaan, > > Thanks for responding. What data is lost?
The notes that are saved in the EAs. > > 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 Aren't they planning to save all EAs? Sounds a bit lame to save only a few specific ones. Christiaan > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
