The Move To... action has to populate the third pane with folders, that's probably what's happening. Make sure the external drive is not in the catalog. Check in the catalog under Devices->Disks. Also make sure Find All Applications is unchecked as that also will cause scanning of Networked drives.
Howard On Jan 17, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Rob McBroom wrote: > On Jan 16, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Lvood wrote: > >> Can sleeping hard disks slow QS down as they have to be activated >> before actions are displayed? >> Is there anything I can do to avoid that? >> >> Normally, I don't access this Backup Volume with QS - so it could be >> ignored (and it is not part of any catalogue, at least I did not want >> it to be). > > Are you adding anything to the catalog via the Spotlight plug-in? It could > very easily be picking up things on that disk. Although, I'm not sure having > it in the catalog would necessarily affect displaying the actions unless the > thing in the first pane was on that disk. > > Many actions go through some checks (validation) to figure out whether or not > they should be available for the selected object. If one of these validation > steps is hitting that disk for some reason, this would explain what you're > seeing. I can't imagine why a plug-in would need to do this, but you could do > some trial and error, disabling plug-ins one at a time and restart > Quicksilver each time, to see if the problem goes away. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> >
