Nevermind, I figured it out myself. Why anyone calls that a drawer and
assumes other people know what it is is beyond me, but oh well, I
figured out how to do it.

On Sep 6, 1:29 am, Mitchapalooza <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I'm trying to get QS to open folders within my documents folder and
> it does not work. For some reason it displays these folders as URL's
> and will not do anything when clicked on. No problem, the FAQ covers
> how to fix this. Except for, it really doesn't tell me how to fix it.
> Here is exactly what it says in the FAQ:
>
> By default Quicksilver finds files on your Desktop and in your
> Documents folder but it doesn\47t scan very far into those locations.
> It scans things on the Desktop but not inside folders on the Desktop,
> that is it scans the Desktop to a depth of 1. Quicksilver scans the ~/
> Documents folder to a depth of 2. To scan deeper, clone the source so
> it\47s in the Custom set in the catalog and editable. To do this,
> select the Users set and the Documents source, open the drawer and
> select the Attributes tab. cIick on Create Copy to create a new source
> in Custom named Documents. Select the new source and cIick on the
> button to show a drawer with three tabs. Select the Source Options tab
> and select the depth. Do not just set it to infinite, the catalog will
> be too large and Quicksilver will slow to a crawl. See the Catalog
> section for some tips.
>
> "To do this, select the Users set and the Documents source, open the
> drawer and select the Attributes tab."
>
> Pardon me, but wtf does that mean? What is a drawer? I don't spend my
> life writing intricate code in C++, but I consider myself savy enough
> to figure out how to create copies of things. This, however, does not
> seem to work for me. Upon clicking the Documents folder in the
> catalog, the only option I get is renaming the folder.
>
> Someone please explain to me how this works. Maybe it's because I'm
> new to Mac, but drawer is not in my tech vocabulary.

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