I've been following this thread with curiosity. My experience trying
to use OS X aliases for this was that QS indexed not the alias but
what it pointed to, which made the hack not work. You can select the
catalog source, hit the i button to open the drawer and look in
Contents to see what it's scanned.
Say "settings are lost" is a little to vague for me to help. Settings
are stored in:
~/Library/Preferences/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist
~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/
Provided you have write access to these files and folders QS should
have no problems remembering settings. When you say "settings" do you
mean all settings or just one thing in particular and if so what
specifically?
Howard
On Mar 27, 2008, at 11:24 AM, Daniel wrote:
I'm not sure what to say, then. Make sure, of course, that the
scanner is set to include folder contents. Also, click on the
"contents" tab in the inspector pane for that scanner and see if
there's anything there. Make sure the scanner is checked, etc. If
you can ever see the aliases, do a "show source in catalog" on them
and make sure it shows as the new scanner and not the default Apps
one. Maybe try moving the QS preferences to the Desktop, remaking
that scanner and seeing if it works now. I've been having similar
problems, but I've usually been able to fix them basically by trying
stuff over and over until it worked. QS is sorta "stubborn"
sometimes.
On Mar 26, 3:48 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I just tried adding the file and folder scanner, but settings are
still lost on restart of QS. Even manually refreshing the catalog
doesn't help.
On Mar 27, 3:15 am, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh, yes, forgot something. Okay, go into the catalog and make a
separate "file and folder scanner" catalog entry for that aliases
folder. QS's "Applications" preset includes a restriction to find
apps only, not folders or other files. For some reason it may be
finding the aliases anyway (for the duration of the session), but it
actually *shouldn't.*
