Thanks Christiaan. I ran the command line in Terminal, and all the items (not just the first few) show "pageIndex = 0". What would this mean?
Bin On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:49 AM Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 20 Oct 2018, at 10:47, Bin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have been using SKIM for quite a while now. Since early this year, I > found that it has stopped being able to remember the last page viewed of > the PDF document. Whenever I open a PDF document in SKIM, it now starts at > page one only, even though, e.g., I stopped at page 50 the last time I > viewed the document. And the "Remember last page viewed" option is checked > in the preference setting my SKIM. > > I am using the latest version of SKIM (1.4.36), and my OS is 10.11.4. I > also tried restarting my computer in safe mode, and this same problem > exists there as well. > > I don't know if it is a SKIM problem or my computer. I have noticed some > other signs that my computer seems to be forgetting certain things. For > example, *sometimes*, when I try to open an application, the OS would > warn me that this is the first time the application is being opened, and > whether I am sure if it is safe to open? This despite the fact that I had > been using this particular application for a while. > > Any ideas what might be going on? Thanks!! > > > This is probably a combination of your OS and some changes in Skim. > Unfortunately, different OS versions behave very differently, and all have > their own set of bugs. In some recent update we have worked around one of > these bugs in several OS versions. But the workaround may have interfered > with the timing with which we save the last viewed pages on some other OS > versions, like 10.11 (the order in which things are closed down in > documents differs greatly between OS versions, unfortunately). I am not in > the position to test for every OS version, so this may be the case, even > though I have tried very hard to guard against all kinds of things the OS > may do to this. I just found one check that may be improved, and could > perhaps have been the cause for this. So hopefully, the next version will > fix this. > > One thing you could do for me is run the following command line argument > in Terminal.app: > > defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.Skim.bookmarks recentDocuments > > If you look in particular at the first few items, are all the pageIndex > values 0? > > Christiaan > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users >
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