Christiaan: > If that's what Dropbox does, than there's no way to fix that. When > the file is deleted there's nothing to follow. We cannot know what > will happen to a file location in the future, if anything, and we > can predict even less what the document itself will do, as that's a > black box. Therefore Skim is conservative, and will not update when > there can be any doubt, starting from the principle that doing > things wrongly is worse than not doing things (especially something > that is non-standard and goes against the system behavior, such as > this.) The only way to safely follow and update files is if Apple > would support it, because they are the only ones that know what > happens in the internals. But they don't.
Thanks for the quick and precise answer. I learned a little more. I put a fresh PDF into dropbox on my computer. The name of the file was Karplus2011.pdf. I launched Skim on the file. I then modified it on my iPad using goodreader and sync'd back. Skim showed no change. However, when I clicked on Skim, the name of the file on the top of the window changed to: /Users/toms/Dropbox/.dropbox.cache/2012-02-23/Karplus2011\ \(deleted\ 4f46c83f-42dfe-9b2c4738\).pdf So apparently the file is not deleted, it is MOVED to the backup cache that dropbox holds for previous versions of files. Skim apparently follows the file into the cache and so no further changes appear. I can see two solutions (aside from the copy/atchange trick). One would be to prevent the backup mechanism from functioning. It's not obvious how to do this from the online dropbox documentation. The other would be for Skim to keep pointing to the same file location instead of moving with the file. Is that easy? Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 301-846-5581 http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
