On Apr 23, 2010, at 23:54, Patrik Jonsson wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Well, yes. but that's the point, in my case. For my use-case if would
> be far preferable to just use .skim files and not any EAs at all.
> Since skim has the ability to save things as either EAs, .skim files
> or pdfd's, would it be possible to make that a preferences option?
> 

Car files are fragile. It's only added as an extra safeguard and nothing else. 
I'm not gonna have this discussion again, you can look it up in the archives.

Christiaan

>> 
>>> 
>>> 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.
> 
> This is what I found on the Dropbox forums:
> 
> "The extended attributes being synced are specified by the DropBox
> devs. The Skim devs should get in contact with them if they would like
> some of their attributes synced."
> 
> So maybe you could drop them a note.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> /Patrik
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