Christiaan Hofman <cmhofman <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> On Apr 11, 2016, at 12:53, Stefano Deiuri <sdeiuri71 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> Piet van Oostrum <piet-l <at> pietvanoostrum.com> writes:
> Stefano Deiuri wrote:Thank you very much, finally I got what I need to
know.When I reinstall the OS X, how should I do to get back my bookmarks in
Skimusing
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> "Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist"? Ican
just add it to the Library trough the Finder or I have to use Terminal.If I
need to use Terminal to put them back, how should I do it? Sorry
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> if I`m
> not familiar in using Terminal and thank you for your patience
> You can just copy them with Finder to Library/Preferences.We usually say
~/Library/Preferences, where ~ is a symbol that indicates
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> your home directory/Users/xxxxx. OS X understands the use of ~ in a lot of
places.Because ~/Library is a hidden directory in Finder, you may have some
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> difficulty to open~/Library/Preferences. There is a simple trick in
Finder.In Finder, press Shift-Cmd-G. Then a dialog window opens where you can
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> type ~/Library/Preferences in thedialog field and then click Go.On a new
system after you copied the bookmarks file, Skim should use it.
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> Otherwise you have to give thedefaults read command in Terminal that was
mentioned before.But actually, if all you user files have been copied to
your new system
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> (or they have stayed there) thereshould be no need to copy the bookmark
file, because it will already be there.
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> I made a test. I uninstalled all Skim files with AppDelete, and
Ireinstalled Skim. I did copy the file
"net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks.plist" inLibrary/Preferences, and I
use the command in Terminal "defaults read
net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks" but my bookmarks didnot get back.
Please helpThank youStefano
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> Did you run the defaults command after copying the bookmarks file back,
and before running Skim? And did the defaults command return the data?
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> Christiaan
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Yes Christiaan, I did them, and I got this message:
Last login: Mon Apr 11 13:28:25 on ttys000
Stefanos-MBP:~ Stefano$ defaults read net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.bookmarks
{
bookmarks = (
);
recentDocuments = (
);
}
Stefanos-MBP:~ Stefano$
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