Hi Jeremy, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jeremy Dolan <[email protected]> wrote: > I use Dropbox's syncing softwave and have this same problem. I use the > following technique, which helps somewhat, but it's not 100% safe. > > In general preferences, turn on "Automatically save Skim notes backups" (on > all machines where you use Skim). > > Now when you save foo.pdf at the office, you'll also write to a normal file > foo.skim, which contains the notes in addition to the file's xattrs. So this > file will sync normally with whatever syncing software you use. And when you > open foo.pdf from home, Skim will say: no notes found, but backup file found; > do you want to load those? > > The danger is, depending on how your syncing software works, you can end up > with multiple note sets for a pdf, and end up overwriting newer data with > older. Suppose you open foo.pdf from home, and it prompts you to load in the > foo.skim backup file. Great. Now you add more notes, and save. Great again, > all of your notes get saved to the xattrs as well as the backup file. But now > you go back to the office, where the local file system already has xattrs > notes for foo.pdf--the OLD xattrs. It's my understanding that in this case, > Skim won't prompt you to load the backup notes file, even those it's newer > than the xattrs and contains more data. It won't even warn you there's > conflicting data. Worse, now if you make a change to foo.pdf at the office, > when you save it again, you'll overwrite the backup file with the data from > home.
This is exactly the problem I had, so I patched skim to read the .skim file first and the xattrs second. I've used this solution with dropbox for a month and a half now and it's worked perfectly. If you are willing to build skim yourself, it's a trivial fix. Look back through the mail archives for the thread "always store notes in a separate .skim file" from late April. cheers, /Patrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
