On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, chris burgess wrote:
Periodically, Quicksilver stops showing results for my Applications
folder.
I've seen a couple of other instances where this issue has been
raised, but haven't yet seen an answer.
eg
http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver/browse_thread/thread/dffeb50cfb33c454/bac6d480f8be3ba8
Am running Quicksilver b54 / v3815 on Leopard 10.5.5
Any clues on how to prevent this, or how I can help gather debug
info when this issue appears?
To rule out user error, the first things to check are:
What stops working? is it a single app? several apps? all apps?
anything (or everything) else?
QS matches against it's catalog which is defined by what's checked in
the Catalog Preferences. Make sure the sources of the things you're
missing are checked. E.g. if it's an Application is it in /
Applications or ~/Applications or somewhere else? Is that location
checked and is it scanned (there should be a number next to the
catalog source in the Catalog Preferences. You can also select a
catalog source, click the i button at the bottom to have the drawer
open and check the middle tab, Contents, to see if the item you expect
to be there actually is (and that it's checked).
I recommend unchecking Find All Applications, particularly if you have
external drives connected. It does a scan of the entire drive (all
drives) to find applications. This is slow and certainly not something
you want happening against a backup drive.
If the item is in the catalog and not found in the first pane of the
command window then something is pretty broken. Check in Console.app
under Console Messages for any messages with Quicksilver in them (you
can use the search box). There might be a clue there.
Howard
