> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:53, Stefano Deiuri <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Piet van Oostrum <piet-l <at> pietvanoostrum.com
> <http://pietvanoostrum.com/>> writes:
>
>>
>> Stefano Deiuri wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much, finally I got what I need to know.
>>> When I reinstall the OS X, how should I do to get back my bookmarks in Skim
>>> using
> "Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist"? I
>>> can just add it to the Library trough the Finder or I have to use Terminal.
>>> If I need to use Terminal to put them back, how should I do it? Sorry
> if I`m
>>> not familiar in using Terminal and thank you for your patience
>>>
>> You can just copy them with Finder to Library/Preferences.
>> We usually say ~/Library/Preferences, where ~ is a symbol that indicates
> your home directory
>> /Users/xxxxx. OS X understands the use of ~ in a lot of places.
>> Because ~/Library is a hidden directory in Finder, you may have some
> difficulty to open
>> ~/Library/Preferences. There is a simple trick in Finder.
>>
>> In Finder, press Shift-Cmd-G. Then a dialog window opens where you can
> type ~/Library/Preferences in the
>> dialog field and then click Go.
>>
>> On a new system after you copied the bookmarks file, Skim should use it.
> Otherwise you have to give the
>> defaults read command in Terminal that was mentioned before.
>>
>> But actually, if all you user files have been copied to your new system
> (or they have stayed there) there
>> should be no need to copy the bookmark file, because it will already be
>> there.
>
>
>
> I made a test. I uninstalled all Skim files with AppDelete, and I
> reinstalled Skim.
> I did copy the file "net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist" in
> Library/Preferences, and I use the command in Terminal "
> defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks" but my bookmarks did
> not get back. Please help
>
> Thank you
> Stefano
>
Did you run the defaults command after copying the bookmarks file back, and
before running Skim? And did the defaults command return the data?
Christiaan
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