Excellent. That is the info I needed. Thanks for your expertise and time.
On Aug 4, 10:34 am, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" <[email protected]> wrote: > No, just "bidule" won't work. "*bidule", where * is one or more > characters from the first part of the filename (before the extension) > will work. For example, if I type "pages" I get Pages.app, but if I > type "mpages" I get all my .pages documents that have the character > "m" in their filename. > > If your objective is simply to find and collect all your .bidule > documents into a group, Spotlight's Smart Folders are probably better > suited to this task. Quicksilver's purpose is to find quickly your > most commonly used items and quickly do actions with them. Spotlight's > purpose is to be an all-powerful search engine. Quicksilver doesn't > search as deeply as Spotlight, so Spotlight is better for pure search. > On the other hand, Spotlight is ONLY capable of searching, so if you > want to do anything interesting with items once they are found, > Quicksilver is better for that. > > Now, having said that, if you create a Smart Folder that searches for > "kind:bidule" you can then select them all, invoke QS, and press ⌘G to > bring them all into the first pane. > > On Aug 3, 8:56 am, tsachs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I tried typing bidule and the only thing that comes up is top level > > folders but not whats in them. So folders named bidule, audio units > > components named bidule but nothing with the extensions .bidule. > > The .bidule files are located 2nd level down in my applications > > folder. So my next question is - How do I have QS index my entire > > computer. ? > > > Also, I type the name of the file into QS and the desired file was not > > in the list at all. Is there some setting I've possible touched that > > isn't allowing QS to search properly or was QS not designed for > > something as basic as finding a file. Thanks > > > On Aug 2, 12:32 pm, "Jon Stovell (a.k.a. Sesquipedalian)" > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If the file is in a folder that QS indexes, you can just start typing > > > its name to find it. to include the name extension in the text that is > > > searched for, just skip the period and type that too. So to find > > > name.bidule, type namebidule into the first pane. > > > > There was never a time when QS automatically selected the text entered > > > into Spotlight. They function independently. However, if you use ⌘Esc > > > to invoke QS, it will open and put the current selection into the > > > first pane in one action. Perhaps that is what you are thinking of? > > > > On Aug 2, 9:03 am, tsachs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have a file on my computer. It's type is " .bidule ". If I want > > > > Quicksilver to locate name.bidule, how do I do that ? Should I just > > > > use Spotlight ? > > > > > Also, at one point, in some version of QS, anything I typed into > > > > Spotlight would show up in QS if I activated QS, this was useful as I > > > > could use both search engines. How do I reactivate it? > > > > > Thanks all.
