Thank you once again for the reply. I found under User there was "Recent Items" which I had taken the check out of. I had failed to notice a second "Recent Items" under the Quicksilver tab in the Catalog, and have now removed the check mark there. Hopefully that fixes it. Will report back later... :-)
You've been a great help. Wil On Mar 9, 4:11 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might have to rescan the catalog after unchecking the box. > Activate QS and with the command window up type ⌘R (that's cmd-R). > > Another thought is that your quicksilver is scanning a backup drive > and finding the item there. > > If that doesn't do it and a visual scan of your other catalog sources > doesn't point to where the doubles are, there is a Show Source in > Catalog action. You may need to enable it in the Action preferences. > Bring up one of the files in the first pane and use the Show Source in > Catalog action. The catalog should appear with the source > highlighted. Do this for both duplicates. It may be hard to know > which is which as their order might change in the results list, but at > some point it should work. > > On Mar 9, 2008, at 4:12 PM, WilliamG wrote: > > > Unfortunately, that didn't fix it. Still finding doubles of files in > > my Documents folder, despite removing the check mark from "recent > > items." > > > Any other ideas? > > > On Mar 9, 12:51 pm, WilliamG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for this reply! Hopefully that will fix it! > > >> Thanks again, > >> William > > >> On Mar 8, 8:41 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I suspect they're probably being picked up via the Recent Files > >>> catalog source as well. Try disabling it. > > >>> Howard > > >>> On Mar 8, 2008, at 6:17 PM, WilliamG wrote: > > >>>> I came across this thread when looking for a different issue. For > >>>> some > >>>> reason, some files are found as duplicated. i.e. I search for a > >>>> file > >>>> name called "Journal 1.doc" by invoking QS and typing "jour." It > >>>> finds > >>>> all my journal documents, but doubles of all of them. e.g. QS finds > >>>> Journal 1, Journal 1, Journal 2, Journal 2 etc etc. I only have > >>>> one of > >>>> each file, and QS finds doubles in the very same folder. Is there a > >>>> way to fix this? The files are in the Documents folder. > > >>>> Thanks, > >>>> William > > >>>> On Feb 14, 10:59 am, lilmoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> Thank you so much! That did the trick! > > >>>>> On Feb 13, 8:18 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>>>> On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:14 PM, lilmoch wrote: > > >>>>>>> On Feb 13, 8:06 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>>>>> See the 2nd item in the FAQ at the end of the user > >>>>>>>> manual:http:// > >>>>>>>> mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf > > >>>>>>> Thanks for your reply. As far as I can tell, the second item in > >>>>>>> the > >>>>>>> FAQ is: > > >>>>>>> "Quicksilver plays or shows notifications for the wrong iTunes > >>>>>>> track" > > >>>>>>> I did find a question in the FAQ related to spotlight, but it > >>>>>>> still > >>>>>>> wasn't clear to me why QS doesn't find a file when I type its > >>>>>>> filename > >>>>>>> in the search box. I'm not trying to use QS to search for text > >>>>>>> within > >>>>>>> a file, I just want it to find the file itself. According to > >>>>>>> the > >>>>>>> FAQ, > >>>>>>> that is well within the capability of QS. > > >>>>>> Forgive me, I was looking at a newer version... > > >>>>>> Quicksilver doesn't find my files > >>>>>> By default Quicksilver finds files on your Desktop and in your > >>>>>> Documents folder but it doesn't scan very far into those > >>>>>> locations. > >>>>>> It scans things on the Desktop but not inside folders on the > >>>>>> Desktop, > >>>>>> that is it scans the Desktop to a depth of 1. Quicksilver scans > >>>>>> the ~/ > >>>>>> Documents folder to a depth of 2. To scan deeper, clone the > >>>>>> source > >>>>>> so > >>>>>> it's in the Custom set in the catalog and editable. To do this, > >>>>>> select the Users set and the Documents source, open the drawer > >>>>>> and > >>>>>> select the Attributes tab. Click on Create Copy to create a new > >>>>>> source in Custom named Documents. Select the new source and > >>>>>> click on > >>>>>> the > > >>>>>> pastedGraphic.pdf > >>>>>> 6KDownload > > >>>>>> button to show a drawer with three tabs. Select the Source > >>>>>> Options > >>>>>> tab and select the depth. Do not just set it to infinite, the > >>>>>> catalog > >>>>>> will be too large and Quicksilver will slow to a crawl. See the > >>>>>> Catalog section for some tips.
