Are notes preserved when I sync PDF files using backup tools such as cvs, svn, etc?
That depends on the tool you are using. To preserve the Skim notes, the tool is required to preserve EAs. It is known that cvs, subversion, and unison do not preserve EAs. On the other hand tools such as cp, rsync, tar, zip, gzip, and SuperDuper do preserve EAs (though some versions of these tools, s.a. gzip from Fink, may not do so). However Finder’s Create Archive and the backup functions Apple’s Disk Utility on higher versions of Tiger are buggy and lose the EAs. Also Apple’s Migration Assistant seems to suffer from the same bug; this is relevant when you upgrade to Leopard. Check out this discussion about backup tools on Mac OSX or this follow-up test to find which backup tools will preserve EAs.
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