On Oct 7, 2014, at 1:50, Alan Harper Bulk wrote:
> Hi
>
> I thought I read that Dropbox was going to support the synchronization of
> skim notes. I am finding that it does not. I have made a number of test
> cases, and I find that while Dropbox does synchronize some of the Macintosh
> file system “metadata” (or extended attributes), it does not synchronize Skim
> notes.
>
> If I run the command line program xattr on two computers being synchronized
> by Dropbox, I can see the “com.apple.FinderInfo” and
> “com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment” metadata being synchronized between
> them, but the "net_sourceforge_skim-app_notes” and other skim attributes are
> not being synchronized.
>
> I don’t understand all the details of Apple’s extended attributes (and hope I
> don’t have to try to do so), but I am wondering if there is something I can
> do to get skim notes to be synchronized, and if my experience is the same as
> others who are using Skim and Dropbox.
>
> Thanks
>
> A
>
> --
> Alan Harper
> l...@alanharper.com
It is really annoying that Dropbox does not synchronize all EAs. What you could
do is to always backup your notes in a .skim file, by checking the option in
the General preferences. Those backup files will be synchronized by Dropbox, as
they're regular files.
Christiaan
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