> On 17 Feb 2020, at 00:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 16 Feb 2020, at 22:43, Heli Helanummi-COle <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Skim peers, 
>> I am in a slight panic as I seem to have lost all my Skim annotations in all 
>> of my pdfs. I've recently had Version 1.5.6 (122) installed and now every 
>> pdf that I open is missing all of the annotations. I've tried going back to 
>> an earlier Skim versions but the situation is no better. Only files with 
>> 'exported' annotations and those with annotations after the SW update have 
>> kept the notes.
>> I use Mac Mojave (10.14.6) and have not had any major OS updates recently so 
>> can only locate the apperance of this problem the Skim version update. 
>> This means I have lost years of work which is a rather upsetting thought. 
>> Has any of you seen this problem?
>> Kind regards,
>> Heli
> 
> Can you check whether the PDFs have notes attached? You can check this using 
> the skimnotes command line tool, see the Wiki for details.
> 
> Christiaan
> 


Or you could use the xattr tool on the command line (Terminal.app). Using 
“xattr FILE.pdf” should list the extended attributes. When there are notes, it 
should either have net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes or 
net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes#S in the list. Do you see these, and which one?

Christiaan

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