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 >> > >
