> On 29 Jan 2024, at 10:47, Carlos Pita <carlosjosep...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > it's me again, still wrapping my mind around some Skim idiosyncrasies. > > I usually store the pdfs for my projects in Google Drive. One of my > motivations to try Skim was to avoid the constant uploading of large > files. I thought it would be nice to save frequent backups of the > annotations and every once in a while to also store full PDF/A > exports. > > But now I realize that each time I save a file in Skim it writes > extended attributes and even though these are not synchronized to > Google Drive (since it doesn't support them at all) the modification > date for the file changes and it's uploaded to Google Drive anyway. > It's the worst possible scenario because the only thing that actually > changed (xattrs) is the only thing that's not synchronized, so I'm > still constantly uploading a large file with the only difference being > that now it's always the same file... > > Then I found out that Skim has a hidden setting to let it start from > pdf+skim files, instead of reading the xattrs. So I can export skim > files instead of saving the pdf, although this is a little > inconvenient: a few extra steps and a confirmation to overwrite the > existing skim file. I'm unable to find a way to get "save" to write > skim files instead of xattrs. Is there any way? > > Best regards, > Carlos
No, that is not correct. You cannot have Skim use pdf with only .skim files. The .skim files can only be saved as a backup, in addition to the extended attributes, and read in when the extended attributes were lost. Christiaan
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