By default Quicksilver does not add the contents of secondary drives
to the catalogue.  However, if one manually adds a catalogue source to
the custom sources that includes some of the contents of a secondary
drive, it will be included in all searches.  Also, if there is an
alias in one of the folders in your catalogue that points to a folder
on the external drive, Quicksilver will follow that alias and add the
contents if finds there to your catalogue.  Finally, telling
Quicksilver to Find all Applications in the Applications section of
the catalogue will cause it to add all the applications it finds
anywhere (including external drives) into the catalogue.

Check through your catalogue and see which of these conditions applies
to your case.

To make things faster for yourself, you can use the Show Source in
Catalog action to quickly show you where in Quicksilver's catalogue
any particular file is indexed.  Bring up a file in Quicksilver that
you know is a duplicate from on the secondary drive and run the
action.  This will show you the particular catalogue entry by which
the unwanted files are sneaking in.  Edit that entry as appropriate
and re-scan, and the files should disappear from your catalogue.

On May 28, 9:10 am, NovaScotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I mean forever -- the second drive on my system is a backup of the
> first among other things, so searches just show duplicates, and my
> boot drive isn't always first.
>
> On May 28, 1:10 am, Sesquipedalian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Do you mean that you want only one drive included for all searches, or
> > that you temporarily want to limit your searches to one drive on a
> > search-by-search basis?
>
> > On May 27, 6:33 pm, NovaScotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Is there a way to confine Quicksilver searches to one drive of two and
> > > exclude the other?

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