Hi,
I was wondering if there's any method for reading all the pdfs in a
selected folder and for files that have skim notes in the extended
attributes, exporting/converting/creating .skim files based on them. I
think what I have in mind is something like the skimalot script, except
using some of the functionality of the skimnotes command line tool.
A few weeks ago, I copied my entire pdf library (a couple thousand) to a
new computer, using the wrong usb drive (one not formatted to keep EAs). I
didnt realize I had done this until after I completed an extremely time
consuming process involving restructuring my entire pdf library, linking it
to Bookends, manually inputting the reference info for hundreds of pdfs,
renaming them, and so on. So I'm in a bit of a tricky situation. I have all
of the pdfs with EAs still on the old computer. If I hadn't sunk weeks into
this setting up my new system, I'd just copy the files over properly and
start again, but I'm hoping there's something that will be slightly less
time consuming that could get me out of the mess.
I had in mind something like this:
1) scan all the pdfs on the old computer, finding all the ones that have
skim annotations in the EA. (I have a couple thousand pdfs, but only a few
hundred are annotated with skim)
2) Batch export .skim files from the EAs.
3) Move those to the new computer and write them to the appropriate pdfs.
(I'm not sure any batch process will be possible with this since all the
pdfs on the new computer now have new file names so I'm guessing even in
the best case scenario I'd have to manually identify which .skim files and
pdfs belonged together.)
Not sure if any tools exist for these steps, but crossing my fingers that
at least some of the process could be automated. Any thoughts?
Also, can multiple .skim files be written into the same pdf? It seems that
for some period of time I had the auto backup skim notes prefernce checked,
and those files made the transfer to the new computer, but I'm not sure how
incomplete or outdated these are. Just to be safe, it'd be ideal if I could
write those to the pdfs as well as the .skim files I will hopefully
generate from the pdfs on the old computer.
Any leads at all would be tremendously appreciated. i'm not optimistic, but
perhaps there's something I haven't thought of. Thanks again.
All the best,
Eamon
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