I have load previews enabled in the prefs, and I don't get the crash. It may be that you still have too many items in your catalog. Have a look in the catalog prefs and see you're not indexing too many files (I have, for example ~100 files indexed).
If you want a way of searching for all the files on your Mac like spotlight can do, then you can install the spotlight module to search from within Quicksilver On 22 March 2011 17:12, mch <[email protected]> wrote: > I seem to have figured out what the issue was, although I'm not quite > clear on why this is causing issues. > > If I enable the "Finder" catalogue, it adds my Pictures folder (from > sidebar), which contains far too many pictures. Same goes for adding > my home folder as a catalogue. This crashes Quicksilver when I try to > search for something. > > Seemingly irrelevant, if I enable "Load Previews" in the Appearance > settings, Quicksilver starts crashing again, despite what catalogues I > have set. This is true no matter what interface I select. > > On Mar 21, 10:19 pm, mch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was using the Bezel interface, which is set to be default, but I've > > switched to Primer. That doesn't seem to fix anything. > > > > I tried cloning the source from github and building it myself; hoping > > maybe to reproduce the issue and watch it with gdb. I was able to get > > it to build and run, but the configuration of the compiled app is > > pretty bare bones; I had to manually install the Core plugin. With a > > bit of playing I got the Address Book plugin working and searching > > contacts, but when I started adding other catalogues the issue came > > back. This is pretty frustrating as I have previously tried disabling > > all catalogues with no affect. > > > > Maybe Quicksilver and my MacbookPro just aren't meant to be. > > > > On Mar 21, 10:02 pm, philostein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Are you using BezelHUD interface? I just had a problem like that. > > > (Although different circumstances I think.) > > > > > Can you get to the Preferences? (Command and comma)? > > > > > On Mar 22, 6:04 am, mch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I have been trying to use Quicksilver for a while now, but it hangs > as > > > > soon as I start typing. > > > > > > If I just launch Quicksilver it sits there happy, I can invoke it > (ctrl > > > > +space), but as soon as type it will hang (spinning beach ball) but > > > > not close. > > > > > > Following the FAQ, I have deleted all the configuration/cache files: > > > > ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/ > > > > ~/Library/Preferences/com.blacktree.Quicksilver.plist > > > > ~/Library/Caches/Quicksilver/ > > > > ~/Library/Caches/com.blacktree.Quicksilver/ > > > > > > A fresh install of B58-3841, with all the default settings, and no > > > > plugins enabled, exhibits this. > > > > > > Disabling all Catalogs does not resolve the issue. > > > > > > Can anybody shed some light on this or aid in debugging? > > > > > > Thanks
