p.s. Is there anything I can do to find out what's really happening in Quicksilver during the "dead time" (which can be up to 30 seconds)? Any logs or activity output to check? (I'm not a software engineer, so I don't know where to look for sth like that in OS X.)
Martin On 17 Jan., 22:41, Howard Melman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/>
