Thanks Christiaan, for your continued work on Skim.

Skim notes sync just fine in Dropbox & have for years.

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> 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
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