Thanks a heap, Patrick. I had to change the Terminal command to delete the new line before "25", so the command to use is:
defaults write com.blacktree.quicksilver "Capture Pasteboard History Count" 25 and then it works great. On Jul 25, 11:39 pm, Patrick Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > Sorry to hear you seem to be having problems with the clipboard in > Quicksilver. The number below the 'Capture History' option is used to tell > Quicksilver how many 'old' clipboard contents should be stored. As you have > quite rightly said, 3 items is very limited and a value like 25 is much > more useful. > > It sounds as if Quicksilver is having trouble remembering the number of > items you would like to remember, to check this, could you please open up > the application called "Terminal.app" and type the following text: > > defaults read com.blacktree.quicksilver "Capture Pasteboard History Count" > > This should tell you '3', since it appears Quicksilver is only storing 3 > items. If you get any different messages, then let us know. > > To alter the setting without doing it in Quicksilver, use > > defaults write com.blacktree.quicksilver "Capture Pasteboard History Count" > 25 > > This will set the preference to 25. Try this, then restart Quicksilver and > let us know what happens. > > On 25 July 2012 12:29, mongpa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm new to Quicksilver but have set it up to manage multiple clipboards > > and used it extensively on versions B68 and now, B69. It works well except > > for one thing: I can't change clipboard behaviour as I would like to. > > > To be specific, I initially set Quicksilver's clipboard preferences with > > the box next to "Capture History" checked and the number in the box > > underneath as "3". This works fine. However, if I want to change from that, > > I don't have much luck. > > > I can still click the box next to "Capture History" to turn this feature > > off and on. If it's off, I can continue to paste from the three clipboards > > that were working before that inside Quicksilver, but can't copy new > > information to them. This is not changed by quitting and restarting > > Quicksilver. The mac system clipboard, however, still copies and pastes new > > information normally. > > > Moreover, if I turn Capture History back on and change the number of > > clipboards from "3" to "25", Quicksilver ignores the change, except to give > > me *four* clipboards instead of three or twenty-five. I can copy and paste > > new information to them regularly. This behaviour continues after quitting > > and restarting Quicksilver, except that the number displayed in the > > clipboard box of Quicksilver's preferences has gone back to "3". > > > I've thought of trashing Quicksilver files and seeing if that helps, but > > two things are stopping me: > > - I don't know which ones, and > > - it took hours of research and trial and error to get the clipboard > > function working as well as it does on Quicksilver, and I am afraid to fix > > the rest that is not broken with it, in case I have to do it all again. I > > can live with four clipboards, but would kick myself if back to just one. > > > Has anyone else had such issues? Any thoughts? > > > Materials Used: > > Quicksilver B69 > > Mac OS 10.7.4 > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups Quicksilver group. To post to this group, send email to > > [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, > > send email to [email protected]. For > > more options, visit this group at > >https://groups.google.com/d/forum/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver?hl=en.
