Thanks Howard On Nov 7, 4:01 pm, Howard Melman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 8:33 PM, chris burgess wrote: > > Periodically, Quicksilver stops showing results for my Applications > > folder.
> 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? All apps - Quicksilver finds lots of document matches, but fails to return the results it would normally do (eg, "te" matching "Terminal"). > 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). All my apps are in /Applications, and that is the first checked source in my catalogues. I don't have "find all applications" checked. I'll your other questions a desktop sticky and check them next time the bug recurs. Right now, they all look normal, but right now I'm not experiencing that problem :) > 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. I presume this is the default, or I've forgotten setting it that way if not. > 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. Again, will follow this up next time the issue recurs. Thanks for your feedback and guidance. Cheers Chris
