On 7 Mar 2008, at 3:06 AM, Derick Fay wrote: >> >> How widespread is the problem of restoring Skim files from Time >> Machine? So far, I have been able to do it without any difficulty. >> This applies (a) to Skim bundles (pdfd), which might be expected but >> also (b) to ordinary Skim files saved as pdfs, which have been >> restored together with their highlighting, underlining, text notes >> and >> anchored notes. The restored files appear to be identical to the >> originals in every respect. >> >> mf >> > > > I suspect this is related to the limit on the # of extended > attributes in a file. Apple's cp (the unix program which does the > file copying) has an unspecified limit in the # of extended > attributes such that files with lots and lots of Skim annotations > won't get their extended attributes copied -- I found this was the > case in about 1 in 15 or so files. The files would copy to local > drives fine, but to a network drive the EAs wouldn't copy. My > solution has been just to save a separate file of Skim notes (under > Preferences > Automatically save Skim notes backups) & clutter up my > directories a bit (which I hardly ever look at since I open all my > articles from BibDesk.....) rather than worry about whether extended > attributes are copying or not. > > There was a discussion about this problem which you can find in the > list archives from mid-Nov. I'd filed a bug report with Apple & they > said limited # of EAs was expected behavior, i.e. not a bug. > > Derick
No, IIRC, the reply from Apple said that the limit on the *length* of the EAs is expected behavior (Apple warns about it in their documentation). However the *number* of EAs is unlimited, according to the documentation. So it's a genuine bug (if not in the implementation than in the documentation). EAs saved by Skim are never larger than the documented safe limit of 2kB. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
