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
>
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