I don't know what's causing it. I suggest looking in the console log
files (run Console.app) for any hints.
What trigger are you creating?
Only install the plugins you are actually using, others can make
things unstable.
Howard
On Jul 18, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Rob Grayson wrote:
Howard,
Thanks for the tip about getting rid of files in Application Support.
I can confirm that I'm using 3815 on OS X 10.5.4. I can recreate the
problem as many times as you like - I create a keyboard trigger (not
a mouse trigger) to paste a specified text snippet. It works fine.
However, the next time Quicksilver is exited and relaunched, the
keyboard shortcut no longer works and when you try to go into
Preferences > Triggers you get the dreaded spinning wheel. The only
way to recover seems to be as you said - to quit QS and then delete
the Triggers.plist file before relaunching.
So it seems QS will behave just finer as long as I don't want to
create any custom keyboard triggers. Shame. I was hoping to avoid
having to purchase a separate text substitution app like
TextExpander. (Unless anyone knows of a free one...?)
Rob
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Be sure you're running 3815 (get it from www.blacktree.com)
tiennou's builds (posted to the google code site) have this behavior
if there are mouse triggers defined. I think it will be fixed (at
least somewhat) in his next build. I use 3815 on 10.5.4 so that my
mouse triggers work.
Your ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Triggers.plist file
is probably corrupt. Quit Quicksilver, (re)move this file, and
restart Quicksilver. Any custom triggers will be gone but you can
recreate them.
Note, when you delete a .app on the mac your settings are not
removed. They are stored in your ~/Library/ folder (usually under
Preferences/ and Application Support/). For this reason, just
uninstalling and reinstalling often doesn't help a problem, but
cleaning out the settings and merely restarting usually does.
Howard
On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Rob G wrote:
Hi,
I'm new to Mac and to Quicksilver. I love the application, but am
running into problems and have had to uninstall it. I was running b54
(latest version downloaded and installed for the first time
yesterday). I'm running OS X 10.5.4.
Everything was working fine yesterday. I then created a customer
trigger to paste some text on pressing a certain hotkey combination.
This worked fine. When I restarted the machine this morning, the
hotkey combination was no longer working - I checked in QS and sure
enough, it was no longer listed under custom triggers. So I created it
again. However, after that, whenever I reopened QS preferences and
clicked on Triggers, I got a kind of spinning wheel in the top left of
the preferences window, and the Triggers pane never appeared. One of
these times, the application froze and there was nothing I could do to
exit it (it didn't even appear in the Force Quit list).
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it without any modules, but
the problem is still there. In fact, it's even worse now - I can't get
into the Triggers pane at all without getting the spinning wheel, not
even the first time I try to access it.
I've read through various posts about this kind of issue, suggesting
various approaches which may or may not work, involving unofficial
builds, terminal commands etc. I don't really want to get into
something complicated like that. I just want to know if there is a
straightforward fix for this issue so that I can become a happy QS
user.
Thanks in davance,
Rob
