Adobe Reader DC Issues with Finder in Mac
Hi,
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC removes Finder's "Tags" and "Date Last Opened" if you save an edited PDF after removing "Text Highlight".
The following procedure can replicate the bug:
Download and open a PDF file such as this from Adobe’s website: https://learndownload.adobe.com/pub/learn/acrobat/edit-text-images-pdf-files.zip
In the macOS Finder, assign a Tag and open the file.
Go back to finder and check the Tag and the Date Last Opened
Go back to the pdf, highlight a line and save the file (first save).
Remove the highlighted text and save the file again (second save).
Now go to the Finder, the "Tag" and the "Date Last Opened" is gone.
It is on macOS Catalina version 10.15.6 and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Build: 20.12.20043.396433.
Ali Akhavan
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tornado
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This bug still persists in Version 2024.002.20759.
There are reports about this bug in the forums dating back to at least 2018. One would think that within six years Adobe should have fixed such a clear incompatibility with the official, built-in way that file management works on macOS and iOS, i.e. two major platforms that Adobe Acrobat is built for.
Looking deeper into this, it seems that upon saving a file in which an annotation has been removed, the xattr (i.e., extended attribute) com.apple.metadata:_kMDItemUserTags is entirely gone from the file. So somehow, Acrobat seems to corrupt the metadata of the file in the filesystem.
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Andrea Alberti commented
Please, Adobe consider fixing this bug. It has been there for many years. I am a licensed user and suffering a lot from this problem. I use extensively Finder tags, rather than directories, for my documents.
Losing tags after saving a PDF document with annotation is very bad. It is like my PDF files had lost their directory. The bug is still there in Acrobat version 2023.006.20360.