Howard you are absolutely THE MAN!!!!!! That worked perfectly. Now I'll go back to setting up a google search trigger.
Thank you:-) On Aug 30, 3:30 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so it sounds like you've had the same corrupted Triggers.plist > file on Leopard that others have reported. Do the following: > > 1. Quit Quicksilver > 2. In the Finder goto the folder ~/Library/Application Support/ > Quicksilver/ > (~ stands for your home folder) > 3. Delete the file Triggers.plist you'll find there. > 4. Restart Quicksilver (it will recreate a pristine version of > Triggers.plist) > > You should now be able to get to the triggers preference panel. > > For help with defining a google trigger and lots of other things, see > the manual:http://mysite.verizon.net/hmelman/Quicksilver.pdf > > Howard > > On Aug 30, 2008, at 3:23 PM, John Lyons wrote: > > > Hi Howard, > > > I'm sorry I sound vague. Most of what you and the other folks are > > talking about sounds like a foriegn language to me. I don't know > > what a plist file is. I didn't think I needed to know. I loved the > > idea of making my mac run more intuitively. That's why I installed > > QS. So please have patience with me and I'll try to explain as best > > I can. > > > Here's the situation: > > I'm using QS version B54, and OS 10.5.4 > > > When I initially loaded QS it worked fine. I was able to access the > > trigger preference pane. There were pre-loaded triggers there and I > > was able to create triggers. > > > I asked the forum how to set up a google search trigger. While > > trying to do that the trigger pane stopped opening. When I tried to > > open it the wheel just spun and it never opened. > > > I uninstalled QS. > > I re-installed QS. > > > The invoke QS still works. > > The command comma still opens the preference pane. > > The catalog is there. > > The plug-ins are still there. > > The trigger pane never opens. > > > I'm not the most computer illiterate person out here, but I'm no > > programmer. > > Thanks again for your patience:) > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > I really can't follow what you're trying. Could you please describe > > what version of QS and OSX you're using, what specific triggers > > you're trying to create and what happens? > > > Quicksilver stores all defined triggers in ~/Library/Application > > Support/Quicksilver/Triggers.plist > > It creates this file when first run, if it's not there it probably a > > permissions problems that it can create the folder. See the FAQ > > under QS won't install any plugins for details. > >http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/web/faq > > > There have been some reports of this file being corrupted on > > Leopard. If this file doesn't exist or is corrupt, QS's trigger > > preferences panel hangs and doesn't come up. Deleting it and > > restarting QS solves that but loses any previously defined triggers. > > > Triggers for dynamic actions (like Get New Mail or menu items using > > Show Menu Items....) can be created but will not exist when QS is > > restart. It's a current limitation and there's no workaround. This > > is why I ask what specific trigger you're trying to create. > > > Howard > > > On Aug 30, 2008, at 2:18 PM, john l wrote: > > > New update: > > A previously set up trigger for invoking Safari is still working. > > Ahhhhhh!!!!!! > > It isn't the lack of triggers that's bothering me. It's that I can't > > create new ones. > > > On Aug 30, 1:59 pm, john l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I still can't find the show button. > > Everything is there but the triggers. Wheel just keeps turning. > > I uninstalled and re installed. Same problem. > > > On Aug 30, 1:05 pm, "St.John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry, it's "show" > > in the catalogue if you click the info panel, then theres a show > > button in the top right hand corner of the panel > > > On Aug 30, 11:00 am, john l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > where is this "reveal" button > > Now catalog isn't openning. same spinning wheel as triggers > > > On Aug 9, 11:35 am, "St.John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > sorry to whoever is moderating the comments > > all of a sudden when i tried to add the app support folder for > > quicksilver to the catalog, i saw the reveal button, and figured id > > try > > and it worked > > and now all my app support folders are back > > i guess you can delete my last few posts > > > On Aug 9, 1:39 am, "St.John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm having the Exact same problem > > although id never risk uninstalling quicksilver :P > > > On Aug 8, 5:56 pm, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am having a problem with triggers that is even more fundamental than > > described. > > > When I invoke the trigger option, I am not able to enter the trigger > > set up and just get a spinning wheel (not the beachball). > > > I also do not have a Quicksilver folder in my application support > > folder and so no triggers.lst. I have tried creating this folder, but > > still get the hanging issue. > > > I have tried uninstaling and reinstalling QS several times with no > > luck. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Thanks. > > > On Aug 8, 10:25 am, LazloHollyfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hi Howard, > > > Thank you for the clarification. QS is such a great program and tool > > for workflow, but I wish we could save triggers for menu items. I > > mean, if we save a trigger and give it a scope to a particular > > application, I don't see why QS wouldn't be able to save that > > information. > > > On the PC end of things, I am using a small applications called > > StrokeIt! Which allows me to use gesturing to invoke menu commands > > and keyboard strokes. I tried out xGestures for OSX, but that doesn't > > seem to work for the CS3 suite (except for Photoshop). QS + > > Abracadabra seemed like a perfect solution becuase of proxy objects, > > but now the triggers will not save. > > > I suppose I'll have to wait for a few development cycles for OSX to > > have a robust gesturing system in place. . . > > > Thanks again for your time and help! > > > Best, > > Laz > > > On Aug 8, 7:07 am, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Aug 8, 2008, at 1:52 AM, LazloHollyfeld wrote: > > > I am having the same problems as others with the Triggers.plist file. > > I create a trigger for an action, and then when I close and relaunch > > QS, the trigger is missing. I read on this board that I should quit > > QS, delete the Triggers.plist file from the Application Support > > directory, and did that. Then I relaunched QS, it created a > > new .plist file but QS still will not save the triggers. I use the > > Command+i to get the info on the Triggers.plist file, and sure enough > > at the bottom it says I can read and write to the file. I checked the > > folders that contain the Triggers.plist file and those, too I have > > permission to read and write from. Is there anything else I should > > try so that my triggers are saved? > > > Also, I am basically making triggers for proxies. For example, I want > > to invoke the "Group" command from Adobe Illustrator's menu. Will > > that save? > > > No it won't. Actions from application menus are known as dynamic > > actions because QS doesn't know them ahead of time and has to scan the > > application (Illustrator in this case) dynamically to find all the > > commands to make actions from them. Unfortunately these can't be > > saved. > > > You should be able to save a trigger for Illustrator (Show Menu Items) > > and after running it typing Group would bring up the command (though > > I'm having problems using Show Menu Items now). > > > Howard
