Thanks Christiaan, for your continued work on Skim. Skim notes sync just fine in Dropbox & have for years.
D > On Oct 11, 2019, at 9:04 AM, Jan David Hauck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Congratulations on that achievement! > Is that restricted to iCloud or will it apply to other services too, such as > Dropbox? > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:41 AM Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Skim stores the notes in the extended attributes of a file. A problem is that > iCloud by default strips extended attributes, and therefore also the Skim > notes. However with certain flags added to the attribute names iCloud > preserve them. That is what syncable notes do. > > The latest release wil be able to read the notes with these flags added. But > it will not write them (yet), because it may exchange data with older > versions of Skim, that cannot read this. > > You can set a hidden preference to have Skim write these more reliable notes. > But be aware older versions won't be able to read them. We probably will make > this option public in a later release, and perhaps make it the default. > > Christiaan > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users> > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
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