HI Christiaan, Thank you very much for your quick response. I agree, this is a very peculiar and extreme case. I’ve been an avid Skim user for a long time and have used several different versions since 2015.
Sadly according to xattr the notes seem to have disappeared altogether. This is what I get back from several trial files: com.apple.FinderInfo com.apple.lastuseddate#PS com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags com.dropbox.attrs I keep the files in Dropbox. Do you think Dropbox could have something to do with this? Kind regards, Heli > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] All old Skim annotations disappeared after SW > update > Date: 16 February 2020 at 23:19:49 GMT > To: For general discussion about using Skim > <[email protected]> > Reply-To: For general discussion about using Skim > <[email protected]> > > > >> On 17 Feb 2020, at 00:04, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected] >> <mailto:[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 > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
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