On Feb 2, 2009, at 4:28 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 2 Feb 2009, at 8:56 PM, James Harrison wrote: > >> On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> Perhaps the >>> system hasn't finished re-indexing your files yet, as this may >>> take a >>> while. Skim should force this when you first launch 1.2.1. You could >>> force it yourself from the command line by typing the following on a >>> single line in Terminal.app >> >> This may be worth a comment in the release notes. I downloaded the >> Skim update earlier today and subsequently ran into a bit of trouble >> with the cpu pegged at 100% by a combination of mdworker and >> ATSServer >> processes (this on a 1.5 MHz G4 Powerbook, OSX 10.5.6; unaffected by >> logout/login and a restart)--the machine was really dragging. A bit >> of >> searching turned up similar problems for other people after >> downloading large or large numbers of PDFs, associated with Spotlight >> indexing those files, and I figured that Skim had probably >> triggered a >> re-indexing of my PDFs. This tapered off after about 1.5 - 2 hr and >> everything's fine now, but it might be worth warning people with >> slower/older machines not to do the update in the middle of the >> workday. >> >> Jim Harrison >> UVa > > Don't think that should be mentioned. It's more a feature of Spotlight > than Skim, so if you think it's a problem than this is also a problem > of Spotlight rather than Skim. In fact, it's a system bug that Skim > needs to force a reindexing, because the documentation says that it's > supposed to do it automatically. > > Christiaan
No criticism of Skim intended. A brief mention of the reindexing might divert folks from thinking there's a problem with Skim, avoiding "My computer has been really slow ever since I upgraded Skim." Just trying to be helpful. Jim Harrison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
