Hi all, For many years now, the default behavior of macOS is to automatically save changes the user makes to a document in most native apps. This behavior can be turned off by checking “Ask to keep changes when closing documents” in the General tab of the System Preferences.
I have this box checked, because I normally prefer to be in charge over whether or not I want to save changes. However, there are some apps where it actually makes sense to auto save changes, Skim being among them. There’s not a lot that can go wrong with annotating a PDF, specially because Skim doesn’t actually change the pdfs as it writes annotations to the extended attributes—which I still consider to be the best feature of Skim. Preview still frequently screws up the text encoding of PDFs when modifying them, even with such a benign thing such as a highlight. So here’s my conundrum: Because of apps like Preview I would not want to change the setting in the System Preferences to stay in control over what to save. But I also would love for Skim to just automatically save my changes when closing a file. I know that there are some applications that in their own preferences allow the user to override the setting in the System Prefs. Is there maybe a hidden preference that I’m not aware of? Or is there maybe a way in macOS to turn off the default behavior for specific apps? Thanks! Jan _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
