Christiaan's command line here works great!  Does  anyone  know  how 
to  make  it work recursively through sub directories?

Bill

>
>xattr * | grep net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes | sed -e "s/: 
>net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes//"
>
>You could also put it in an alias or a script.
>
>Christiaan
>
>On 19 Aug 2008, at 9:16 PM, mf wrote:
>
>>  FoxTrot Professional Search will find and search the contents of
>>  the .skim file in a pdf bundle (.pdfd) created with Skim. You can also
>>  search for files whose names contain .skim (ie the notes file in a
>>  pdfd bundle) and this will pull up all the .skim files you have.
>>
>>  I expect the lower priced FoxTrot Personal Search will also do this,
>>  though I haven't checked.  I'm not sure that either will find the
>>  notes in an ordinary pdf file annotated with Skim, though you may want
>>  to play around with it.
>>
>>  To use FoxTrot you set it up to index selected folders (or your whole
>>  drive) first. You can then do elaborate searches of file names,
>>  contents or metadata. Demos are available from 
>>http://www.ctmdev.com/download/
>>
>>  Maurice
>>
>>  On 19 Aug 2008, at 19:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>>  Thanks, Christiaan --
>>>
>>>  I'm not sure if I asked the right question, so ... assuming there is
>>>  a search tool (other than Spotlight/Finder) that can look inside the
>>>  PDF, is there any indicator such a tool could look for that indicates
>>>  a Skim note is in the file?
>>>
>>>  Mike
>>>
>>>>  You can't, Finder has no knowlegde of Skimnotes.
>>>>
>>>>  Christiaan
>>>>
>>>>  On 19 Aug 2008, at 5:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  How should one search in Finder for all docs that have (unembedded)
>>>>>  Skim notes?
>>>>>
>>>>>  Mike
>>>
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