On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >>>> 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.
> 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 Christiaan, a ".skim file only" option might be fragile, as you say, but for those of us using Dropbox to manage hundreds of PDFs, the current situation is MUCH MORE fragile. We are ACTIVELY experiencing data loss on a routine basis. We don't suggest "skim files only" should be the default, but in many situations, EAs do more harm than good, and in this wild, woolly, not-100%-EA-compatible world, ".skim only" would likely be a great help to many. (Your other suggestion of PDF Bundles is too massively incompatible to be a viable option to keep all of our data. It defeats the point of PDFs.) Or what about this compromise?: If the notes in EA and the notes in .skim aren't identical, prompt the user? Surely that's not an objectionable kludge? With much thanks for all your work, Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
